Post Card CUYAHOGA RIVER & WATER WORKS DAM Akron, OH posted 1920 fishing scene Some transfer from the black construction paper it was mounted on. Estate sale find, just removed from under glass frame for scanning and placed in mylar. Shipping with tracking included. boarded.

Built a couple years prior to the sending of this card, the water works dam was built by the Electric Company as a source for the steam turbines that ran their generators. Some of the water was piped down the south side of the river to a second, smaller generating plant. This is the only remaining dam on the Cuyahoga River and the EPA is in the midst of planning it's removal as the final chapter in the clean up of the legendary burning river.

This view from down stream today is different: concrete piers have been placed across the shelves of shale below the dam, and often have tree trunks wedge upon them. Depending on flow rates, massive plumes of water shoot up from those piers. 

No doubt the area was also used by the several Native American tribes whose empires spanned the area. The river bed is a source for fossils, and the trails up the banks from this scene are littered with boulders left behind by the retreating glaciers. Legend has it that the shelf caves carved out by natural drainage over the centuries were used by migrating tribes as shelter. The name Cuyahoga means "twisted river"--it is the only river in the world which flows north, south, east and west. 

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