South Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is an inner ring suburb of Cleveland located on the city’s east side. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,883.
At a Glance
- County: Cuyahoga County
- State: Ohio
History of South Euclid
The land currently comprising South Euclid was part of the Western Reserve, obtained via treaty with the Iroquois confederation in 1796 by the Connecticut Land Company. In 1797, Moses Cleaveland named the area east of the Cuyahoga River Euclid, after the Greek mathematician and "patron saint" of surveyors. Euclid Township was officially formed in 1809. In 1828, Euclid Township was divided into nine districts, with South Euclid becoming district two.
The earliest industry was farming. But, by the 1860s, quarrying of the area’s rich Bluestone deposits replaced agriculture as the town’s economic mainstay. Two separate locations, one along Nine Mile Creek near present day Quarry Park at South Belvoir and Monticello Boulevards, and the other along what is today part of the Euclid Creek reservation, were consolidated by Forest City Stone Company in the 1870s, creating one of the region’s largest producers of the stone. By the end of the 19th century, the northern section of the town had become known as Bluestone village.
Residents of South Euclid eventually wanted autonomy from the larger Euclid Township, and voted on October 13, 1917, to be incorporated as a village, with Edward C. Foote being elected the first mayor a few weeks on November 6. At the same time, with the decline of the Bluestone industry brought on by improvements to poured concrete, Bluestone village was absorbed into South Euclid.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article South Euclid, Ohio, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.