Brooklyn Heights in Cuyahoga County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Brooklyn Heights
Photographed by Grant & Mary Ann Fish, July 22, 2023
1. Brooklyn Heights Marker
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Brooklyn Heights. . With its favorable seasons and fertile soils, the northern Ohio frontier attracted settlers to the Western Reserve from the beginning of the nineteenth century. With a well-established agricultural heritage, truck farming became popular as wagons hauled produce to stands at the Central Market on Public Square in Cleveland around 1860. Thirty years later, to extend the growing season, Martin Ruetenik, who was inducted into the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, introduced the concept of greenhouse growing by constructing a 550-square foot greenhouse. Following his lead, nearly every farmer along Schaaf Road became a greenhouse farmer making Brooklyn Heights one of the leading greenhouse areas in the United States with over 4 million square feet or 100 acres under glass. With its concentration of greenhouse farming, Brooklyn Heights became synonymous with fine, high quality, greenhouse tomatoes.
With its favorable seasons and fertile soils, the northern Ohio frontier attracted settlers to the Western Reserve from the beginning of the nineteenth century. With a well-established agricultural heritage, truck farming became popular as wagons hauled produce to stands at the Central Market on Public Square in Cleveland around 1860. Thirty years later, to extend the growing season, Martin Ruetenik, who was inducted into the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame, introduced the concept of greenhouse growing by constructing a 550-square foot greenhouse. Following his lead, nearly every farmer along Schaaf Road became a greenhouse farmer making Brooklyn Heights one of the leading greenhouse areas in the United States with over 4 million square feet or 100 acres under glass. With its concentration of greenhouse farming, Brooklyn Heights became synonymous with fine, high quality, greenhouse tomatoes.
Erected 2003 by Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, Village of Brooklyn Heights, The Ohio Historical Society. (Marker Number 50-18.)
41° 25.154′ N, 81° 40.389′ W. Marker is in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, in Cuyahoga County. It is at the intersection of East Schaaf Road and DiFranco Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on East Schaaf Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 77 E Schaaf Rd, Independence OH 44131, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Greater Cleveland, on the Lake Erie Shore, and in the Western Reserve. It is also in the American Midwest and on the Great Lakes. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Photographed by Grant & Mary Ann Fish, July 22, 2023
2. Brooklyn Heights Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on November 11, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 1, 2023, by Grant & Mary Ann Fish of Galloway, Ohio. This page has been viewed 500 times since then and 28 times this year. Last updated on August 11, 2023, by Grant & Mary Ann Fish of Galloway, Ohio. Photos:1, 2. submitted on August 1, 2023, by Grant & Mary Ann Fish of Galloway, Ohio. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
