Cleveland: The Making of a City (Black Squirrel Books)

by William Ganson Rose

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Traces the history of the Ohio city from its days as a frontier settlement, through the coming of industrialization, to 1950.

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Original publication date: 1950
Important places: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Genres: Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 977.1 — History & geography History of North America North central United States Ohio
LCC: F499 .C657 .R67 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Ohio

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