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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LNM_adams-street-cemetery_Berea-OH.html
Known as the "Village Cemetery", this was Berea's main burial ground from 1834 to the 1880s. However, in 1886, the Cleveland Stone Co. purchased quarries adjacent to the cemetery, where Coe Lake is today. Quarrying had already caused flooding a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1046_the-berea-triangle_Berea-OH.html
The Triangle, one of the most historic places in Berea, has been the center of the city's civic life since the mid-19th century. Just beneath lie the solid layers of the famous Berea Sandstone that brought prosperity to Berea durign its early year…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFD3_the-ark_Berea-OH.html
The ARK in Berea is the first structure in Cuyahoga County to incorporate sustainable building concepts from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Hand built in 1994 as a work of art by environmental artists David and Renate Jakupca, it is a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6F5_berea-union-depot_Berea-OH.html
Ohio from the time of its construction in 1876 until its closing in 1958, is an unusual, but well-designed example of Victorian Gothic Architecture. With the development of an expanding stone quarry industry in the area, Berea and its railroad fac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM35G_berea-sandstone-quarries_Berea-OH.html
For more than ninety years, this area was the heart and soul of Berea's sandstone quarries. In the early 1830s, John Baldwin discovered that the area's sandstone deposits made superb grindstones and building stones. in the 1840s, thriving sandston…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RF_the-big-quarry_Berea-OH.html
The photograph looks north to the buildings on East Bridge Street, which constituted the northern boundary of Berea's sandstone quarries around 1895. The photographer stood approximately where you are standing.
"Gradually the water came, first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R8_first-congregational-united-church-of-christ-of-berea_Berea-OH.html
Seven original members, who were staunch abolitionists, organized the First Congregational Church of Berea in the nearby Union School House on June 9, 1855. These members publicly articulated opposition to slavery and their desire for a church wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R7_lyceum-square_Berea-OH.html
On this site the Lyceum Village and the Berea Seminary were established in 1837 by John Baldwin, Jame Giruth, Henry O. Sheldon, and Josiah Holbrook. Their vision was to create the first in a connected series of Lyceum Villages. The Villages were d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R5_baldwin-university_Berea-OH.html
In 1845, Baldwin Institute, one of the first schools in the area open to all students regardless of gender, race, or creed, was chartered. The wealth generated by the sandstone and grindstone industries of Berea allowed John Baldwin to found the s…