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City of Euclid Recreation Program

Sunday, June 15, 2014, 5 pmRoy Larick

Euclid Historical

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Lilly Creek

Euclidian Place walking tour

Lake Erie

Moss Point

Utopia Beach

Arcadia Beach

216-289-8114 [email protected]

Explore Euclid’s Lake Erie beaches!

Arcadia & Utopia Beaches

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Celebrating three years of Euclidian Place

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Bluestone Heights

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Lilly Creek’s Portage Escarpment headwaters descend in the Beverly Hills and Sherwood boulevard ravines. The stream is entirely culverted across the lake plain.

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Lilly Creek has the widest mouth of any Euclid escarpment run.

The beach back slope functions ecologically as an intermittent estuary.

Lake Erie

Moss Point

Utopia Beach

Arcadia Beach

Google Earth aerial viewer

Bluestone Heights

West and northwest swells can push lake water over the beach crest and into the back slope lagoon area. Before culverting, such action delivered lake life to the stream mouth.

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Orrin Lilly’s house, at 81 E 200th, is Euclid’s unique example of a Great Lake’s ‘captain’s residence.

Arriving to Euclid in the 1840s, Orrin Lilly’s life revolved around Great Lakes shipping. He sailed for many years and, in winters, worked at the Euclid Creek shipyard.

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Parts of the bathhouse foundation can be seen in beach fore-slope, especially after a northeast (erosive) swell.

In 1898, the Shore Line interurban railroad opened along the Lake Rd, from Public Square to Willoughby. This gave impetus for a number of Moss Point resorts, including Lilly’s-on-the-Lake.

Lilly Creek can be seen passing in front of the bathhouse.

The Arcadia and Utopia beach clubs are functional descendants of Lilly’s-on-the-Lake.

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Lilly Run

USGS LiDAR underlay; Cram (1892) overlay railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial viewer

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Back of the Newton house compound, 1917.

Lots 2 (Newton) and 3 (Lilly), 1898

Isaac Newton & Utopia Beach

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Babbitt Run

In 1892, New Yorker, Isaac Newton, bought lakeshore lot 2 (50 a) on which to build a winery. The Utopia Beach allotments began with lot 2.

Newton’s cold storage facility, now the Utopia Beach clubhouse.

Newton barn.

Ambrose Dowd, Newton’s foreman, in the vineyard.

District 3 Berwick schoolhouse. Built, 1880s; demolished, 1929.

Orrin Lilly house, 81 E 201st St.

Lots 2 (Newton) and 3, 1920

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Euclid History Museum

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Euclid History Museum

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City of Euclid Recreation Program

Sunday, June 15, 2014, 5 pmRoy Larick

Euclid Historical

Society

Lilly

Cre

ek

Lilly Creek

Euclidian Place walking tour

Lake Erie

Moss Point

Utopia Beach

Arcadia Beach

216-289-8114 [email protected]

Explore Euclid’s Lake Erie beaches!

Arcadia & Utopia Beaches

Google Earth aerial viewer

Celebrating three years of Euclidian Place

Led by

Bluestone Heights