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Erie Street Cemetery
On your left is the Erie Street Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in the city. It was established in the 1820s, and was named after the street it was built along: Erie Street, now renamed East 9th Street. The city planners back then didn’t intend to build their cemetery in the city center; in the 1820s, this area was the edge of the entire city. It being the oldest cemetery, it has interred many of the city’s early leaders and pioneers. Many of Cleveland’s first mayors lie here. There’s also Lorenzo Carter, who was Cleveland’s first permanent settler of white European descent. And then there’s Joc-O-Sot, a chief of the Meskwaki tribe who fought against the U.S. in the Black Hawk War of 1832, and later joined a Cleveland-based touring vaudeville troupe. Photo "Erie Street Cemetery entrance - Cleveland - 2016-02-07" by Tim Evanson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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