Local History Files:
The materials in the
local history files illuminate many corners of Lakewood's past. As part of
an ongoing project, begun in the spring of 1998, the Technology Center at
the Lakewood Public Library will be posting electronic
copies of the information found in these files. Paper copies of these
materials pertaining to Lakewood history are located in the library. Newspaper
articles, pamphlets, and other uncataloged materials are processed and arranged
by subject in the Files. A full drawer is devoted to historical materials
on Lakewood Public Library. Historical photographs are filed separately as
well; a large proportion of these are of the library.
Books:
Lakewood Lore: A Collection
of Historical Stories and Profiles, by Dan Chabek. This book is a compilation
selected from the Lakewood Lore columns which began as a series in 1989 in
the Lakewood Sun Post to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lakewood's
founding. See also Lakewood Lore Online.
Story of Lakewood, Ohio
by Lindstrom, George E., ed. by Lawrence J. Hawkins.
Published by the author, 1936 (156p., illus.)
Early days of Lakewood
by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lakewood Chapter, Historical
Research Committee, Mrs. Milton D. McIntyre.
Published in Lakewood by the Lakewood Chapter, National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, 1936 (107, [4]p., illus. (maps))
The Lakewood Story by
Margaret Manor Butler with a foreword by John Lewis Shissler.
Published in New York by Stratford House, 1949 (271p., illus., maps)
The Story of James Nicholson:
The Beginnings of Lakewood by William M. Gregory, with a foreword by Martin
W. Essex.
Published in Lakewood by The Public Schools, 1953 (53 leaves, illus.)
Lakewood:
The First Hundred Years by James Borchert and Susan Borchert.
Published in Norfolk by Donning Co., 1989 (191p., illus.)
Romance in Lakewood Streets
by Margaret Manor Butler.
Published in Cleveland by W. Feather Co., 1962 (47 p., illus.)
A Compilation of Histories:
The Lakewood Public Schools edited by Joseph Wilson and Eleanor Chidester.
Published in Lakewood by the Lakewood Board of Education, 1984 (1 vol., illus.)
Tori in Amerika: The
Story of Theodor Kundtz by Christopher J. Eiben.
Published in Cleveland by Orange Blossom Press, 1994 (92p., illus.)
The Cleveland Years:
The Diaries of Agnes Jeannette Stranahan, January 1, 1918 to June 1, 1922
edited by Joan D. Snider.
Published in Grants Pass, OR by Riverrun Press, 1993 (130p., illus.)
Vignettes of Clifton
Park by Blythe Gehring.
Published in Cleveland by Penton Press, 1970 (121, [7]p., illus., maps)
Lakewood: A Thousand
Memories by Robert Hull.
Published in Bay Village, OH by Bob Hull Books, 1993-5 (3 vols.)
v1 Lakewood A Thousand Memories;
v2 The Lakewood High Adventure;
v3 The City of Trees We All Called Home
Historic
Buildings of Lakewood, Ohio compiled by Craig Bobby.
Lakewood Public Library, (2001- ), 2 loose-leaf binders
Newspapers:
The Lakewood Sun
Post weekly. Older issues of the paper and its predecessors to September
27, 1917 are available on microfilm. There is no index to the paper.
City Directories:
Lakewood and Cleveland
City Directories
Yearbooks:
Lakewood High School
yearbook, The Cinema.
U.S. Census
Census records on microfilm.
Online Resources:
Local
History Files -- online copies of our Local History Files
Volksmarch -- focusing on the history of buildings, locations and people
along walk routes through the city.
Lakewood Legacy -- collection
of online historical material
Lakewood Historical Society -- and
also Artifacts: online
articles from the society's newsletter
Lakewood Lore -- online
copies of articles by Dan Chabek, which appeared in the Lakewood Sun Post.
The Lakewood Public
Schools: A Compilation of Histories
Theodore Kundtz: An Online Exhibit
-- an online collaboration between Lakewood Historical Society and Lakewood
Public Library
Lakewood, OH: "Birdtown"
-- The Carpathian Connection, genealogical website for Slovakian, Carpatho-Rusyn
and Ukranian descendants
Other Local Resources:
More extensive or specialized
collections for historical and genealogical research are available at:
Cuyahoga County Public
Library,
Fairview Park
Regional Branch
4449 West 213 Street
Fairview Park, Ohio 44126
440/333-4700
Western
Reserve Historical Society Library
10825 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216/721-5722
The Genealogical Society
of the Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints
Cleveland, Ohio Stake Branch Library
25000 Westwood
Westlake, Ohio 44145
440/777-1518
Lakewood
Historical Society
14710 Lake Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
216/221-7343
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