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In Euclid, walk the Arcadia and Utopia beaches and the Lilly Creek intermittent estuary. See beach formation and erosion processes first hand. Learn the history of Orrin Lilly, Great Lakes sailor, and Issac Newton, would-be wine grower. Understand the development of the Utopia Beach allotments and of Lilly's-on-the-Lake. Comprehend the issues for stream conservation along the urbanized Lake Erie shoreline.
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City of Euclid Recreation Program
Sunday, June 15, 2014, 5 pmRoy Larick
Euclid Historical
Society
Lilly
Cre
ek
Lilly Creek
Euclidian Place walking tour
Lake Erie
Moss Point
Utopia Beach
Arcadia Beach
216-289-8114 [email protected]
Explore Euclid’s Lake Erie beaches!
Arcadia & Utopia Beaches
Google Earth aerial viewer
Celebrating three years of Euclidian Place
Led by
Bluestone Heights
Lilly Creek’s Portage Escarpment headwaters descend in the Beverly Hills and Sherwood boulevard ravines. The stream is entirely culverted across the lake plain.
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Lilly Creek has the widest mouth of any Euclid escarpment run.
The beach back slope functions ecologically as an intermittent estuary.
Lake Erie
Moss Point
Utopia Beach
Arcadia Beach
Google Earth aerial viewer
Bluestone Heights
West and northwest swells can push lake water over the beach crest and into the back slope lagoon area. Before culverting, such action delivered lake life to the stream mouth.
Orrin Lilly’s house, at 81 E 200th, is Euclid’s unique example of a Great Lake’s ‘captain’s residence.
Arriving to Euclid in the 1840s, Orrin Lilly’s life revolved around Great Lakes shipping. He sailed for many years and, in winters, worked at the Euclid Creek shipyard.
Parts of the bathhouse foundation can be seen in beach fore-slope, especially after a northeast (erosive) swell.
In 1898, the Shore Line interurban railroad opened along the Lake Rd, from Public Square to Willoughby. This gave impetus for a number of Moss Point resorts, including Lilly’s-on-the-Lake.
Lilly Creek can be seen passing in front of the bathhouse.
The Arcadia and Utopia beach clubs are functional descendants of Lilly’s-on-the-Lake.
Lilly Run
USGS LiDAR underlay; Cram (1892) overlay railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial viewer
Moss
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Back of the Newton house compound, 1917.
Lots 2 (Newton) and 3 (Lilly), 1898
Isaac Newton & Utopia Beach
lake
plain
R. Larick
Babbitt Run
In 1892, New Yorker, Isaac Newton, bought lakeshore lot 2 (50 a) on which to build a winery. The Utopia Beach allotments began with lot 2.
Newton’s cold storage facility, now the Utopia Beach clubhouse.
Newton barn.
Ambrose Dowd, Newton’s foreman, in the vineyard.
District 3 Berwick schoolhouse. Built, 1880s; demolished, 1929.
Orrin Lilly house, 81 E 201st St.
Lots 2 (Newton) and 3, 1920
R. Larick
Euclid History Museum
Euclid History Museum Euclid History Museum
Euclid History Museum
City of Euclid Recreation Program
Sunday, June 15, 2014, 5 pmRoy Larick
Euclid Historical
Society
Lilly
Cre
ek
Lilly Creek
Euclidian Place walking tour
Lake Erie
Moss Point
Utopia Beach
Arcadia Beach
216-289-8114 [email protected]
Explore Euclid’s Lake Erie beaches!
Arcadia & Utopia Beaches
Google Earth aerial viewer
Celebrating three years of Euclidian Place
Led by
Bluestone Heights
