Cleveland Yachting Club

It was 129 years ago, on September 21, 1878 , that Commodore George W. Gardner, one of Cleveland 's civic leaders, called a meeting of important citizens in an effort to save some of the lakefront for the people. The new railroads were being pushed westward. The simplest rights of way were along the shores of the lake. Cleveland needed them and the commerce they would produce. To get the railroads, the City was giving them the land that was its greatest natural asset and the birthright of its... more