A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . are; Euclid road was made passable forteams, as was also part of Ontario street. Water street was a wind-ing path in the bushes; and TTnion and \ineyard lanes mere jiiitlisto tile river. -Mandrake laiu and Seneca and Rank streets were prac-tically all woods; while Ontario street noi-lli of the Square, of it, Erie, and Wood, were in a stale of nature. ,\ pass- 18171 A VILLAGE SCHOOL-HOUSE 115 able roail van out by (.)iitario street aud the modern Broadway, toNewburg. The Kinsman ro
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . are; Euclid road was made passable forteams, as was also part of Ontario street. Water street was a wind-ing path in the bushes; and TTnion and \ineyard lanes mere jiiitlisto tile river. -Mandrake laiu and Seneca and Rank streets were prac-tically all woods; while Ontario street noi-lli of the Square, of it, Erie, and Wood, were in a stale of nature. ,\ pass- 18171 A VILLAGE SCHOOL-HOUSE 115 able roail van out by (.)iitario street aud the modern Broadway, toNewburg. The Kinsman road (Woodland avenue) was then alto-gether out of town. First Scuoul-House Built in Clevel^d In a small grove of oak trees on St. Clair Street near Bank (WestSixth) Street, on the east side of the lot now occupied by the Ken-iiard House, a little school-house had been built by private subscrip-tion, the donors being John A. Ackley, Walter Bradrock, AlonzoCarter, John Dixon, Stephen S. Dudley, J. Heather, D. C. Hender-son, Levi Johnson, Daniel Kelley, T. & I. Kelley, David Long, Edward. Clevelands First School-house MeCarney, T. & D. Mills, Plinney Mowrey, Joel Nason, N. H. Mer-win, Geo. Pease, Horace Perry, J. Riddle, James Root, William Trim-ball, Geo. Wallace. A. W. Walworth, Jacob Wilkerson, and SamuelWilliamson, the several amounts ranging from two and a half totwenty dollars. In January, 1817, the village trustees voted that thesums given for this purpose by these public spirited citizens should berefunded to them from the treasury of the corporation at the end ofthree years from and after the 13th of June, 1817, and that the cor-poration shall be the sole proprietors of the said school-house. Inlater years. Miller SI. Spangler, who learned to read at one of theschools kept in this building, made a sketch of it which is herewith re-produced. In his Enrhj Ilistorij of the CleveUtnd PiMlc Sclwols, pub-lished by the boaixl of education in 1876, Mr. Andrew Freese, Cleve- 116 CL
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