Shaker Heights
| Shaker Heights | |||
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Location in Ohio
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1911 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Cuyahoga County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 29 ′ N , 81 ° 33 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 28,448 (as of 2010) | ||
| Population density : | 1,748.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 16.37 km 2 (about 6 mi 2 ) of which 16.27 km 2 (about 6 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 320 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 44118, 44120, 44122 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-71682 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1065308 | ||
| Website : | shakeronline.com | ||
| Mayor : | David E. Weiss (since November 6, 2018) | ||
Shaker Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County , State of Ohio . It is a so-called tram - Subdivision ( English streetcar suburb ) of Cleveland km east and is just under 14 whose center.
geography
Shaker Heights, like its neighboring town Cleveland Heights , is located on a plateau that extends east of Cleveland. It is about 10 km from the southern shore of Lake Erie at an altitude of around 320 m above sea level. NHN .
history
Today's municipal area was originally the land of a Shaker community , which had dissolved in 1889, which was acquired in 1905 by the real estate speculators and later railway tycoons Van Sweringen. The place was founded in 1911 as Shaker Village , which was developed as a planned city based on the model of a garden city by the Van Sweringen brothers. The place was given its current name in 1913 at the latest. Shaker Heights has had city status since 1931.
Demographics
Shaker Heights has long been one of the wealthiest cities in America and a popular residence for the wealthy white middle class of entrepreneurs and intellectuals. Numerous African Americans have now moved to the city. In 2007, 61% of the population were white and 34% black.
sons and daughters of the town
- Harlan W. Newell (1916–2012), US Army officer
- Paul Newman (1925-2008), actor
- Fred Willard (1933-2020), actor
- Roger Penske (* 1937), businessman and owner of the automobile racing team Team Penske
- David Mark Berger (1944–1972), weightlifter
- Gary Cohn (* 1960), investment banker
- Molly Shannon (born 1964), actress
- Ken Norris (* 1967), jazz musician
- David Wain (* 1969), comedian and filmmaker
- Jamie Babbit (* 1970), film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Aris Brimanis (born 1972), ice hockey player
- Joshua Radin (* 1974), musician, singer and author
- Carter Bays (* 1975), screenwriter and television producer
- Ben Simon (* 1978), ice hockey player and coach
literature
Bruce T. Marshall: Images of America - Shaker Heights . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston 2006, ISBN 0-7385-4050-1 .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Limited preview in Google Book Search
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mayor's Office . From shakeronline.com, accessed April 7, 2019
- ↑ Mayor's Biography . From shakeronline.com, accessed April 7, 2019
- ↑ Feature Detail Report for: Shaker Heights . Accessed April 8, 2019 at geonames.usgs.gov
- ↑ Jeffrey S. Morris: Beechwood, The Book . Cleveland State University Library, Cleveland 2000, LCCN 96-094096 , Chapter 1 The early days and the establishment of Warrensville Township , p. 7 (American English, online at clevelandmemory.org [accessed April 8, 2019] First edition: 1996).
- ^ The Shaker Historical Society Museum and Library . 2017 at shakerworkshops.com, accessed April 7, 2019
- ↑ Rick Smith, Gabrielle Girard: Village of Shaker Heights Established . From tiki-toki.com, accessed April 7, 2019
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) Shakeronline.com, archived from the original on December 3, 2012 ; accessed on April 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Rick Smith, Gabrielle Girard: Van Sweringen Company established . From tiki-toki.com, accessed April 7, 2019
- ^ Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - SHAKER HEIGHTS . At case.edu , accessed April 8, 2019
- ↑ Christopher Maag: A Suburb Looks Nervously at Its Urban Neighbor. nytimes.com , January 17, 2008, accessed June 12, 2015 .