Don't forget to get your Westlake Historical Society Membership.
For more information contact the membership chairman:
Dave Pfister at 440-721-1201
Each month the Westlake Historical Society has many questions asked of us via the phone or on our website/e-mail.This month we have had several about the beautiful sculpture at the corner of Hilliard and Dover Center:
http://www.cityofwestlake.org/pdfs/News/balazs_sculpture.pdf
We are often asked about our first settler Leverett Johnson :
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Born in Connecticut, Leverett Johnson was the first to clear land (in 1811) in what is now Westlake. Three years later, he built a log house at Porter and Center Ridge roads for his bride Abigail Cahoon. They raised nine children on this land and donated some of it for Evergreen Cemetery. Johnson was a Justice of the Peace, a township trustee, a county commissioner and a five-time Ohio state legislature. |
"Yesterday Lives Today for Tomorrow" organization. We rely on financial support from individuals,annual fundraisers, such as our antique show, duck regatta, and yard sale. We use the money generated to fund our educational activities and to maintain the Clague House Museum, as as well as the ongoing restoration of the Lily Weston House.
" I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place may be proud of him". - Abraham Lincoln
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