The Redstone Run Highland Reserve comprises 8 acres at 25309 Highland Rd, Richmond Heights. Here, the stream cuts through the hard Euclid bluestone to create a small gorge in the softer shale below. The reserve conserves local nature and history. With it, the Friends of Euclid Creek can foster education and research on important watershed issues. Join us, Tuesday, May 6, 6:30 pm for a tour of the reserve with presentations by Roy Larick, Al Klonowski and Claire Posius. to explore and plan.

1. Bluestone
Heights
View N from the plunge
pool to the Cleveland Shale
Friends of
Euclid Creek
Redstone Run Highland Reserve
for the
Photo: D. Lawrence
Portage Escarpment nature and history
Tuesday, May 6, 6:30 pm
25309 Highland Rd, Richmond Heights
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Bluestone Heights
Walk back in time
Look toward the Future

2. Bluestone
Heights
View N from the plunge
pool to the Cleveland Shale
Friends of
Euclid Creek
Redstone Run Highland Reserve
for the
Photo: D. Lawrence
Redstone Run Highland Reserve
comprises 8 acres just north of
Highland Rd in Richmond Heights.
Here, the stream cuts through the
hard bluestone to create a small
gorge in the softer shale below.
The reserve conserves local
nature and history. With it, the
Friends of Euclid Creek can foster
education and research on
important watershed issues.
Join us to explore and plan.
© 2014
Bluestone Heights
Walk back in time
Look toward the Future

3. Bluestone
Heights
View N from the plunge
pool to the Cleveland Shale
Friends of
Euclid Creek
Redstone Run Highland Reserve
for the
Photo: D. Lawrence
Roy Larick, Al Klonowski, Claire Posius
Join us at Redstone Run
© 2014
Bluestone Heights
Presentations by
216-524-6580 x 16 / CPosius@cuyahogaswcd.org

4. With glacial retreat, 16,000 years ago,
rushing meltwater generated many
streams along the Portage Escarpment.
Euclid Creek formed between the pre-
glacial Cuyahoga and Chagrin valleys.
Portage Escarpment
deglaciation
Moraine
For a short time, 14,000 years ago, the
retreating glacial ice stalled and deposited
the Euclid Moraine. This feature diverted
local north-flowing streams westward to
form Euclid Creek’s east branch.
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The main branch begins in high on the
escarpment to flow northward. The east
branch gathers headwaters forced
westward along the Euclid Moraine.
Each branch falls over the Euclid bluestone
to create a gorge in the underlying
Bedford, Cleveland and Chagrin shales.
The Highland Reserve lies where main
branch tributary Redstone Run falls over
the bluestone to cut a miniature gorge.

5. USGS LiDAR elevations railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial viewer
Berea
‘redstone’
massif
Euclid
Creek
Redstone Run begins on a
sandstone massif and cuts
across sandstone and
bluestone terraces. It then
falls fast to the confluence of
Euclid Creek’s main and east
branches.
At the Highland Reserve, Redstone Run cuts
through the hard bluestone to create a small
gorge in the softer shale below.
Highland
Reserve
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Bluestone Heights
Southeast

6. USGS LiDAR elevations railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial viewer
Euclid
Creek
The Redstone Run source is just
west of Richmond and north of
Monticello. Building stone
quarried here has a pinkish color,
hence the name ‘redstone’.
As the Redstone, Stevenson, and Claribel streams flow
across the bluestone terrace, each cuts a knick point
waterfall and gorge. During the last 14,000 years, the
knick points have migrated upstream nearly 1 mi.
Highland
Reserve
Redstone building
foundations survive along
Richmond & Highland Rds.
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Highland Rd
RichmondRd
North

7. Redstone Run Highland Reserve,
The parcel straddles Redstone Run for
750 to 950 feet, south to north
Redstone Run drains to the
confluence of Euclid Creek’s main &
east branches.
Google Earth aerial, USGS LiDAR substrate
Several feet of Euclid bluestone cap the
reserve gorge. The cap rock forms the
surface of a large plain stretching from
Cleveland Hts eastward to the Chagrin
River—the bluestone terrace
The cap has resisted the buldozing effect
of several glacial advances, but has lost
some thickness in the process.
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Bluestone Heights
Photo: D. Lawrence
North

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Bluestone Heights
Google Earth aerial, USGS LiDAR substrate
Bluestone knick point
The Highland Reserve lies at Redstone Run’s Euclid
bluestone knick point. At the knick, the stream cuts slowly
through the hard bluestone and quickly throuh the softer
underlying shales. The result is a knick point waterfall.
South of Highland (off the reserve), the stream
descends through several thin layers of bluestone.
View N (downstream)
from Highland Rd,
across the plunge
pool. A debris field of
bluestone cobbles lies
at the end of the pool.
North of Highland, the
culvert descends
through massive shale
layers. Emerging at high
speed from the culvert,
floodwaters form a
substantial plunge pool.
Photos: D. Lawrence
Redstone Run
knick point profile
view east
The shale waterfall is culverted under Highland Rd.
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A
B
North

9. In 1852, Highland was
not yet a road, just a
property line.
This knick point has a significant history.
On it, the Richmond family, of
Massachusetts, established a water-
powered sawmill during the early 1800s.
Redstone Run is small for powering
a mill. A dam raised the output.
The Highland Rd crossing provided
the dam site.
In 1864, Frank Verbsky, Euclid Twp’s first
Bohemian immigrant, bought the parcel and
ran the mill for another ten years or so.
The 1874 map shows the
mill pond just south of
Highland Rd.
In 1858, the mill is shown
and the parcel is more
accurately defined.
In 1814, Edmond Richmond bought Euclid
Twp Lot 66 (160 a). In 1847, son-in-law
Virgil Spring acquired 11 a in the SW
corner. Edmond or Virgil began the mill.
Blackmore 1852
Hopkins 1858
Titus 1874© 2014
Bluestone Heights
The reserve parcel has
borders nearly identical
with the sawmill lot.
Time for
archaeology!
Google Earth aerial, USGS LiDAR substrate
North

10. Bluestone
Heights
View N from the plunge
pool to the Cleveland Shale
Friends of
Euclid Creek
Redstone Run Highland Reserve
for the
Photo: D. Lawrence
Portage Escarpment nature and history
Tuesday, May 6, 6:30 pm
25309 Highland Rd, Richmond Heights
© 2014
Bluestone Heights
216-524-6580 x 16 / CPosius@cuyahogaswcd.org