CSPAN3 Reel America The Crooked River Dies - 1966 July 14, 2024
The Cuyahoga River as most think of it, the brown stream that meets lake erie, an industrial waterway, its banks populated by steel mills and factories, its channel filled with shifts. The Cuyahoga River, as it reaches lake erie, after a 100mile twisting under turning journey from its head waters is an exhausted stream, oft used and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of cleveland, akron, would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indian...