| The Cleveland Metropolitan Park District was born in 1917, the initiative of a young, self-taught engineer who had conceived the idea of an outer chain of parks with connecting boulevards some 12 years earlier. William Stinchcomb's genious was to anticipate the future need for open space at a time when Cuyahoga County outside of Cleveland was still largely rural. This book celebrates the first 75 years of what is now known and enjoyed as Cleveland Metroparks. |
