Public Square Cleveland Ohio 1912
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Public Square Cleveland Ohio 1912
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Cleveland Public Square
Ontario St. and W Superior Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44115
The central plaza takes up 4 city blocks.
Public Square was part of the Connecticut Land Company's original plan for the city, which were overseen by Moses Cleaveland in the 1790s. The square is signature of the layout for early New England towns, which Cleveland was modeled after. While it initially served as a common pasture for settlers' animals, less than a century later Public Square was the height of modernity, when in 1879 it became the first street in the world to be lit with electric street lights, arc lamps designed by Cleveland native Charles F. Brush. The square was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1975.
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