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 ships and tugs. The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100mile twisting and turning journey from its head waters is an exhausted stream. Abused 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 india...