Cuyahoga River
The Crooked River, infamously known as the river that burned, has been the defining backbone of the geomorphology, transportation, development, and industrialization of the region since the original Western Reserve land grant by King Gustaf in 1604. Still very much a working river, the Cuyahoga remains the gateway to lake Erie, supporting bulk transport for the cement and steel industries, plying over 11 million tons of raw materials and finished goods in 2004.
The western limit of the Western Reserve, and the boundary between the United States and the Indian territories when President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on their Journey of Discovery, the River today remains the divide between the "Eastside" and "Westside" cultures and neighborhoods with vastly different character, architecture, history and cultural values that reinforce the neighborhood sense-of-place and profoundly inform community values and priorities that shape the region's burgeoning network of stakeholders exploring sustainable development and rejuvenation in the Cuyahoga Valley
Lake Erie Balanced Growth Initiative
Cuyahoga County Planning Commission
Burn On by Randy Newman