His machine. Without the Cuyahoga River, the metropolis would not exist, the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the reserves in the 1780s the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and, so, man came and continues coming, until today, nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex command has used the river as men have always use rivers. The flow has been put to work as a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere, is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling and the coauthor of where the river burned the carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me be been by asking physically where youre located and explained what happened 50 years ago this month. Thank you for having me. We are sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie so you can see over my shoulder one of
The river river, as most think of it, the brown stream that meets lake erie, an industrial waterway if banks populated by steel mills and factories, its channel filled with ships and tugs. The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100 mile journey from its headwaters is an exhaustive stream, abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, cleveland and 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 indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. And so man came and continued coming. Until today, nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply, and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph or the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradlin
Banks are populated by steel mills and factories. Its channels are filled with ships. [ music ] the Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after 100 mile twisting and turning journey from it waters, is a exhausted stream, abused and misused by men and their machines. Without the cuyahoga, the cleveland alkalines would not exist. For settling the portion of to revel the river was called crooked, it is a waterway into ohio. So man came, and continued coming. Until today, nearly 2 million people, live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as man has always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a stream, water supply, and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is bismarck habitat for the cuyahoga, the Crooked River . [ music ] you are now going to see, a documented montage film of the cuyahoga. The server belong to the people, the people should decide, there many decisions that must be made in regards to your river i hope you participate
There are not many scenes such as this any more. You really have to look for them. In the looking, you will discover that our environment is not the endless thing our forefathers thought it was. Five years ago, montage sought out this kind of scene. We went to the closest major waterway we knew in the area of cleveland. And what we found was that every day because of what we do the Crooked River dies. 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 100 mile twisting and turning journey from head waters is an exhausting stream. Abused, misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling area of cleveland, g akron would not exist. The river was the reason of settling here in the 1780s. The river called quicken by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio a
Without the cuyahoga, cleveland and 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 indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. And so man came and continued coming. Until today, nearly two Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply, and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph or the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling. He is a professor of history at the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me begin, though, by asking physically where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this month. David hi, thanks for having me. We are sitting near the mouth of the Cuyaho