Exploring Burk Run Terrace
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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
Euclid Ave
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0th S
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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
Terra
ce
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
Terra
ce
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