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\n\t\t\tHistory\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\t\tEarly Settlers\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\t\t\u00a0Collinwood Village 1883 – 1910\t<\/h3>\n\t

On June 4, 1883, Collinwood Village was established out of the Collamer section of East Cleveland and Euclid townships.<\/p>\n

Collinwood, with a population of 1,500, was laid out on a liberal plan with streets enough for a small city. It had churches, three schools, six stores, four doctors, two drug stores, one hardware store, two boot stores, one clothing store, two millinery stores, one hotel, The Warren House, two livery stables, two news depots, one wagon and blacksmith shop, one harness shop, three meat markets. A post office was established in 1875.<\/p>\n

The village was also the site of several lakefront vineyards. Farmers sold the grapes in bulk, but, there was some wine produced. J. J. Preyer’s Lake View wine farm was one of the most recognized wine-producing places in the county.<\/p>\n

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The Lake Shore Railway merged with the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad in 1869 to form the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, giving one company the whole route from Buffalo to Chicago, passing through Collinwood. The first locomotive traveled the entire length of 1,013 miles.<\/p>\n

The building of railroad repair shops and roundhouses began in 1873 and finished in 1875.<\/p>\n

By 1890 Collinwood was a significant switching point of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad as well as the site of vast rail freight yards. The Collinwood Railroad Yards\u00a0eventually included more than 120 miles of track and extensive repair shops, providing the basis for the area’s early growth.<\/p>\n\t

An influx of immigrant workers settled in the area when the railroad purchased 160 acres to build a repair yard and roundhouse in 1874. The need to provide housing for workers gave birth to a new settlement named Collinsville after the railroad’s chief engineer, Charles Collins. Collinsville became a significant switching point and the location of its vast freight yards. The railroad yards eventually included over 120 miles of track and extensive repair shops, providing the basis for the area’s early growth.<\/p>\n

The LS&MS railroad built a station just east of 140th Street south of the tracks attracting wealthy Cleveland residents to build summer homes in the North Collinwood area.<\/p>\n

George Gilbert, Sage Coe, and John Shipherd developed the 40-lot Gilbert Shipherd allotment on both the north and south sides of Lakeshore Boulevard immediately east of Coit’s property in 1870.<\/p>\n

In 1870, Osborn and Stockpole allotment came immediately to the east. Eight small, wood-sided homes ranging from 800 to 1,600 square feet were built on twelve lots in the subdivision. They were one to two stories in height and situated on lots of one-tenth to two-tenths of an acre.<\/p>\n

In 1870, John D. Rockefeller purchased fifty-acres of lakefront acreage in East Cleveland Township east of the Osborn and Stockpole allotment from the Sheldon Parks estate.<\/p>\n

In 1906, a movement commenced to annex Collinwood to the City of Cleveland. A group of Collinwood citizens prevailed on a member of Cleveland City Council to introduce an ordinance to annex Collinwood to Cleveland.<\/p>\n

More conservative property owners, including members of the Collinwood council, viewed the movement with suspicion, believing annexation would increase tax rates.<\/p>\n

Collinwood council hastily passed on ordinance to detach a strip of territory along Collinwood’s westerly line bordering Cleveland to create a new township. If successful, Collinwood would no longer be contiguous to Cleveland.\u00a0 State law provided that only contiguous cities and villages could merge their territory.<\/p>\n

Both Cleveland’s petition to annex Collinwood and Collinwood’s petition to sever some if its territory to create a new township were filed with the Cuyahoga County commissioners.\u00a0 Even though state law clearly provided that the commissioners must form a township following action by a village council to detach land, the commissioners took no action on either petition.<\/p>\n

The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad expressed a desire to have its Collinwood property remain separate from the City of Cleveland, believing that they could receive more improvements from Collinwood.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile as described in greater detail in the Founding of Bratenahl, owners of lakefront properties in Collinwood desired to preserve their domestic tranquility through self-government.\u00a0Alvah Chisholm<\/strong><\/a>, Horace Fuller, and others representing themselves to be a majority of the freehold electors along Lakeshore Boulevard petitioned county to allow their properties to detach from Collinwood and become a separate township.\u00a0 The petitioners stated they did not want to be included in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

On June 16, 1907, the Cuyahoga County commissioners approved this new petition and the strip of territory, called Bratenahl Township, was broken off from Collinwood.\u00a0 Curiously, the petitioners stated publicly that if the attempt to annex Collinwood failed, they would consider rejoining Collinwood.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, both the Cleveland and Collinwood Councils put before their voters on the November 1907 ballot the question of whether Collinwood should be annexed to Cleveland.\u00a0 The voters in both communities approved the merger.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the election, the residents of Bratenahl Township announced that they would approach the Village of Bratenahl with the goal of annexing the township land to the village. On March 6, 1908, the Bratenahl Council adopted an ordinance to annex Bratenahl Township.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Overnight Bratenahl gained approximately 30 new families and grew to approximately 1.06 square miles.<\/p>\n

The fight over the annexation of Collinwood to Cleveland continued.\u00a0 Notwithstanding the results of the election in November 1907, lawsuits, legislative delays, and administrative maneuvering delayed a final resolution of the annexation debate. The annexation of Collinwood to Cleveland was not effected until January 25, 1910, almost four years after the effort began.<\/p>\n

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