Name/Title
Revolutionary Soldiers's GravesEntry/Object ID
DA.11.012Scope and Content
Revolutionary Soldiers's Graves
Located, Verified and Marked / in /
Cuyahoga, Lorain and Medina Counties, Ohio / by /
Western Reserved Chapter, N.S.D.A.R.
Cleveland, Ohio
Compiled by / Mrs. Perry L. Hobbs
Published 1927
*COPY LOCATED UNDER (R+DA)Ref/DA/DA.11
Blue cover
p. 3 Chairman of the Committees on
Marking Revolutionary Graves
p. 5 Program
p. 7 The Beginnning
p. 8 First Services Conducte in Cleveland / over Revolutionary War Graves
p. 12 Revolutionary Soldiers Graves [organized by county]
p. 19-20 Lake Shore Cemetery / Bay Village / Dover
[Lakeside Cemetery]
David Foot
William Sadler (Saddler)
p. 26-27 Portage and Crawford Counties and Real Dau. Graves
p. 28-29 Epitaphs
p. 30-31 Historic Sites
Indian trails were well beaten paths, which had existed in time immemorial leading from one distant point of the country to another. One led from Buffalo along the lakeshore to Detroit.
Another from the Ohio River, by way of the "portage" as it was called, to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. Then connected at Cleveland, where the river was crossed by a ferry established by the Indians. In this way the principal trading posts erected by the pioneers with its facilites of securing an important commerical intercourse with those distant points of trade.
This ferry was situated on the west side of the river, opposite St. Clair street. At this point a trail led one across the marshy ground up the hill past the old log trading post, where there were springs of water, to an opening in the forest, near the crossing of Pearl and Detroit streets.
The trail continued thence westerly to Rocky River and Sandusky. Another one, less frequented, led off northerly up the river to the old French trading post, where Magerine was found in 1786 near Brighton and thence near the river bank to Tinker's Creek and probably to the old portage path...
p. 32 Honor RollCollection
Military Collection
