Burk Run brick ovens, ~1900

William Hatchel collectionBurk Run brick ovens c. 1900

Euclidian Place walking tour, Aug 17, 2014

Roy Larick

A unique nature-culture weave

Burk Run/St Clair Terrace

Euclid History Museum

Bluestone Heights

City of Euclid Recreation

St Clair Terrace

Babbitt Run

lake plain

clay pit

borrow pit

Burk Run

Burk

Run

wave cut Painesville Moraine

uncut Painesville Moraine

Euclid Moraine

Hillandale

brickyard Bluestone Business Park

The streams then flow north on the St. Clair Terrace to join, farther north on the lake plain.

At the Euclid-Wickliffe line, two branches of Burk Run cut north through the Painesville Moraine to cross Euclid Ave.

Burk Run is Euclid’s largest yet least known stream. It has an interesting history and fairly good potential for basing a green stream corridor.

Burk Run current geography

county line

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Chardon Rd

Arthur St. Clair (1737-1818) by Charles Peale First governor of the Northwest Territory

Wikipedia

Burk Run on the St. Clair Terrace

East of Cleveland, the St. Clair Terrace rises subtly above the glacial till-covered lake plain to the north. To the south, at Euclid Ave, the terrace gives rise to the steep Portage Escarpment.

Through the 1800s and early 1900s, the terrace was the focus of East Side agricultural and industrial development. Since the late 1960s the terrace has lost industry and population. Now, the St. Clair Terrace may prove helpful in revitalizing Cleveland’s eastern inner ring communities around green space and urban forest landscapes.

Burk Run on the St. Clair Terrace

© 2014 Bluestone Heights

St Clair

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Babbitt Run

USGS LiDAR underlay; Mueller(1898) overlay railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial view

Burk Run

Burk Tract

lake plain

Burk RunIn 1797, Joseph Burk opened an inn on the Euclid side of the run. In 1800, Girdled Rd began channeling settlers this way. Inns soon opened in Wickliffe. Hospitality remains a local business.

Babbitt Run

Wickliffe Historical Society

Thomas Lloyd house (1850s), Euclid Ave, Salt Run

Burk Run early settler history

Burk Run brickyard, view north across NKP tracks

Burk Run brickyard, 1898, dba Buckeye Brick

Wickliffe Historical Society

Burk Run brickyard, view east across the clay pit

Van Horn (1916)

In 1881, the Nickel Plate Railroad set the stage for area vineyards and a brickyard. Wickliffe’s brick downtown grew quickly, as did Noble in Euclid.

Burk Run brick ovens, ~1900

William Hatchel

In 1889, the Burk Run brickyard opened on the DeKalb Clay at the county line.

1889 Cleveland Brick1892 Buckeye Brick & Tile Works 1898 Buckeye Brick 1916 John Kline Brick 1922 McKay Brick 1932 Euclid Shale Brick

Firms at Burk Run

St. Clair Terrace

Burk Run brickyard

clay pit

brickyard

© 2014 Bluestone Heights

St Clair

Terra

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Babbitt Run

USGS LiDAR underlay; Mueller(1898) overlay railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial view

Callahan house, St. Clair Rd (1870s)Demolished 1960

Albert Louden house, St. Clair Rd (1880s)Demolished 1960

Burk Run

Burk Tract

Euclid History Museum

Euclid History Museum

Burk Run is culverted under the Euclid Spur and from the CSX tracks to its mouth at 25300 Lake Shore Blvd.

I-90 Euclid Spur current aerial viewclay pit, up-rightborrow pit, down-center

lake plain

wave cut moraine

St Clair Terrace

county line

I-90 Euclid Spur 7-29-62, view NW

clay pit (up-right)borrow pit (center-left)

Google Earth aerial viewer

clay pit

borrow pit

clay pit

borrow pit

St Clair

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The DeKalb Clay crops out just

below “St. Clair”

Burk Run

Burk Run

Burk Run Lakeland Freeway & I-90 Spur

Burk Run

Lake Erie

Post WWII growth killed local industry & railroading. In 1961, I-90 buried Burk Run and sucked manufacturing and settlement from the area

Euclid History Museum

Euclidian Place walking tour, Aug 14, 2014

Bluestone Heights

City of Euclid Recreation

St. Clair Terrace

Burk Run wetlands

Now is time to create green stream corridors in Euclid.

Burk Run’s course across the St. Clair Terrace is a good place to start.

Burk Tract

Bluestone

Business

Park

clay pit

brickyard

Burk Run Terrace timeline© 2013 Bluestone Heights

1797 Joseph Burk opens inn at Euclid Twp’s east line

1798 John Moss buys 720 acres south of Burk’s tract

1798 Girdled Rd joins Euclid Ave via Ridge & Bishop

1803 Stage coach service begins on Euclid Ave

1809 Abraham Bishop opens grist mill Euclid Creek EB

1812 Eaton inn opens on Ridge at Bishop, Wickliffe

1817 Freeman inn opens on Euclid Ave, Wickliffe

1822 Lloyd inn opens on Euclid Ave, Wickliffe

1852 CP&A Railroad opens; Noble station

1881 Nickel Plate RR opens through Euclid

1883 Euclid RR opens to Bluestone village

1889 Burk Run brickyard opens on the DeKalb Clay

1896 CP&E electric railroad opens along Euclid Ave

1962 Euclid Spur construction; Burk Run culverted

1889 Cleveland Brick1892 Buckeye Brick & Tile Works 1898 Buckeye Brick 1916 John Kline Brick 1922 McKay Brick 1932 Euclid Shale Brick

Euclidian Place deep history

Euclidian PlacesFourteen thousand years ago, the retreating glacier revealed a complex local nature. 10,000 years ago, Native Americans gravitated to the moraines, fossil beaches, and gorge mouths.

In the early 1800s, earth-based industries exploited natural resources. In the 1890s local nature drew the summering crowd and the estate builders. In the twentieth century, the suburban city lost interest in the nature and history of place.

As the urban core shrinks, we may rediscover unique natural and cultural legacies and regain interest in our special places.

Burk Run brick ovens, ~1900

William Hatchel collectionBurk Run brick ovens c. 1900

Euclidian Place walking tour, Aug 17, 2014

Roy Larick

A unique nature-culture weave

Burk Run/St Clair Terrace

Euclid History Museum

Bluestone Heights

City of Euclid Recreation