Cataract Falls (33 - 18)
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boatchick
N 41° 26.682 W 081° 37.541
17T E 447734 N 4588313
Cataract Falls, AKA Mill Creek Falls
Waymark Code: WM3417
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 02/05/2008
Views: 37
This marker is located on Webb Court, off Warner Road near Broadway in Cleveland. Cataract Falls is part of the Cleveland Metroparks. The Slavic Village Historical Society is located nearby.
Formed by erosion of Cleveland shale and cascading 48 feet, making it the tallest waterfall in the county, the Cataract Falls of Mill Creek powered the gristmill and sawmill built by William Wheeler Williams and Major Wyatt in 1799. The mills, commissioned by the Connecticut Land Company to encourage settlement of the Western Reserve, attracted people to Newburgh. Cleveland finally outgrew bustling Newburgh by 1830 and eventually annexed most of it. The founding of the Cleveland Rolling Mill in Newburgh, beginning with the firm of Chisholm, Jones, & Company in 1857, precipitated the growth of the steel industry in Cleveland. By 1868, under the management of Henry Chisholm, it became one of the first in the nation to produce steel using the Bessemer process. The Rolling Mill, later the American Steel and Wire Company (a subsidiary of U.S. Steel), purchased the millworks at the falls in 1872.
Marker Number: 33-18
County: Cuyahoga
Significance of Location: Thing
Bicentenial Mark: yes
Website address: [Web Link]
Additional Coordinate: Not Listed
Additional Coordinate description: Not listed
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