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71-646: The Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad (C&M; later the Cleveland and Mahoning Valley Railroad) was founded in 1848 and authorized to build a line from Cleveland to Warren, Ohio , and then into Pennsylvania. The railroad intended to connect with the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad on the Lake Erie shore in Cleveland. This required crossing from the east to west bank of the Cuyahoga River , but

142-470: A bank, five mercantile stores, and about 600 inhabitants. Warren had a population of nearly 1,600 people in 1846. In that same year, the town had five churches, twenty stores, three newspaper offices, one bank, one wool factory and two flourmills. In June 1846, a fire destroyed several buildings on one side of the town square, but residents soon replaced them with new stores and other businesses. Warren became an important center of trade for farmers living in

213-580: A biking-hiking trail. The plan also included the construction of a new pedestrian bridge over the Old Ship Channel of the Cuyahoga River to reconnect the tracks with the old C&M rail yard (now part of Wendy Park). CMG Landscape Architecture, a San Francisco -based landscape architecture firm, authored the remainder of the plan, which proposed converting Irishtown Bend into park, playground, and wetlands. Negotiations to obtain title to

284-523: A cost of $ 282,000 ($ 400,000 in 2023 dollars). Barr and Prevost recommended that Metroparks delay building the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail along Irishtown Bend until the hillside stabilization issues had been identified and a permanent solution implemented. The 0.25-mile (0.40 km) south leg of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail opened on August 13, 2015. The dedication

355-620: A crossing was not immediately constructed. This left the tracks ending near Kingsbury Run on the east bank of the river. The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad leased the C&;M in July 1863, and agreed to complete the line. Work on a new passenger depot on the Scranton Flats began in August 1863, and the tracks over the river to the new depot were completed on November 4. In March 1880,

426-518: A later interview, Ashbery said he had never visited the town. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 16.16 square miles (41.85 km ), of which 16.13 square miles (41.78 km ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km ) is water. Its climate type is Dfb . As of 2015, 95.5% of the population spoke English , 1.6% Greek , 1.1% Spanish , and 0.9% Italian in their homes. As of

497-535: A major stockholder in Kellogg's, and invested in banking, insurance, and real estate. Among his investments was the purchase of a significant amount of stock in the Cleveland Trust Company , a small Cleveland bank. He was named a director of the bank in 1937, its president in 1941, and chairman of the board in 1962. Gund transformed the bank into Cleveland's largest bank; at the time of his death, it

568-658: A more south-southeast direction at Main Avenue, it passes beneath the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway , Main Avenue, Winslow Avenue, and Washington Avenue before piercing an arch of the Old Superior Viaduct. For much of this portion of the route, the trail is enclosed in a trench lined with stone retaining walls. The 0.25-mile (0.40 km) southern leg of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail starts at Columbus Road. The trail, which

639-405: A real estate development corporation, for $ 1.6 million ($ 3,400,000 in 2023 dollars). The private company spent $ 300,000 moving Conrail's track off the island. In December 2004, Cuyahoga County purchased this land, as well as the rest of Whiskey Island, for $ 6.25 million ($ 10,100,000 in 2023 dollars). The county used most of the peninsula to create Wendy Park . The track bed from the south bank of

710-600: A wide variety of products including linseed oil, furniture, barrel staves, wool fabric, blinds, incandescent bulbs, automobiles and carriages; however, the leading companies were the Packard Electric Company and Packard Motor Car Company , both founded in the 1890s in Warren by brothers James Ward Packard and William Doud Packard . Warren was the first town in the U.S. to have an electric street illumination, provided by Packard Electric. Warren's population

781-685: Is a city in and the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio , United States. Located along the Mahoning River , Warren lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Youngstown and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Cleveland . The population was 39,201 at the 2020 census . The historical county seat of the Connecticut Western Reserve , it is the third largest municipality in the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area after Youngstown and Boardman , and anchors

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852-734: Is at ground level, curves across the Scranton Flats before passing beneath the Hope Memorial Bridge . Two new bridges allow it to pass over the tracks of the Flats Industrial Railroad and Scranton Road, before it joins the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail near the intersection of University and Scranton Roads. 41°29′41″N 81°42′24″W  /  41.494598°N 81.706799°W  / 41.494598; -81.706799 Warren, Ohio Warren

923-819: Is home to the Tribune Chronicle , a daily local newspaper serving Warren and its vicinity in Trumbull County. It traces its history to the Trump of Fame in 1812, the first newspaper in what had been the Connecticut Western Reserve . In 2008, USA Today reported daily circulation of 35,471 for the Tribune Chronicle . Warren is part of the Youngstown media market , and is served by Youngstown-based television and radio stations. AM stations WHKZ and WHTX are licensed to Warren. Warren

994-526: Is served by the Western Reserve Transit Authority , which provides bus service throughout Mahoning County. The George Gund Foundation The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established in 1952 to provide grants in the areas of the arts , civic engagement , community development , economic development , environmental policy , and human services , public education , racial inequality . As of 2019,

1065-703: The Youngstown Kitchens Trumbull Open on the LPGA Tour in 1960. From 1993 to 2000, Avalon Lakes Golf Club hosted the Giant Eagle LPGA Classic golf tournament on the LPGA Tour. Warren operates under a Mayor-council government system. William "Doug" Franklin has been the mayor of Warren since November 2011. His current term expires on January 1, 2028. City Administration Children in Warren are served by

1136-475: The recession that began in 2001 , the foundation's endowment had shrunk slightly to $ 425 million ($ 720 million in 2023 dollars). Bergholz retired at the end of 2002, and was succeeded by David Abbott, president of University Circle Inc. Abbott, a former Cuyahoga County administrator, worked closely with The Gund Foundation as executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and as executive director of

1207-399: The 19,288 households 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.4% were married couples living together, 19.4% had a female householder with no husband present and 37.6% were non-families. 32.9% of households were one person and 13.7% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 3.01. The age distribution was 26.3% under

1278-463: The 1950s, the foundation focused primarily on education and grants were small, ranging from $ 10 to $ 10,000. Grant amounts began to become substantially larger after 1960. At Gund's death in November 1966, his estate was worth about $ 24.5 million ($ 230 million in 2023 dollars) after the payment of debts and fees. The bulk of his estate went to The George Gund Foundation. With this contribution,

1349-406: The 600-foot (180 m) pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Old Ship Channel. By October 2014, four bridge design teams had been selected as finalists: Columbus -based DLZ/ Paris -based RFR Engineers ; Elyria -based KS Associates/ Parsons Brinckerhoff ; Pittsburgh -based Michael Baker International/Skip Smallridge; Miguel Rosales/ Schlaich Bergermann Partner / Osborn Engineering . By June 2015,

1420-633: The Atlantic & Great Western emerged from bankruptcy as a new company, the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad (NYP&O). In the spring of 1886, the NYP&;O extended the tracks in Cleveland by crossing the western part of the Scranton Flats, curving around Irishtown Bend, and crossing "the Angle" (the next peninsula) to bridge the Old Ship Channel of the Cuyahoga River and reach Whiskey Island and

1491-417: The C&M trackbed began in 2008. The Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national nonprofit which coordinates and facilities the creation of parkland, negotiated on behalf of the group with Westbank Development Corp. On December 28, 2009, TPL purchased for $ 3.2 million ($ 4,500,000 in 2023 dollars) title and an easement covering 1.3 miles (2.1 km) of former C&M trackbed between the Old Ship Channel and

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1562-504: The Cleveland Bicentennial Commission. In 2014, The George Gund Foundation joined Cuyahoga County in launching the nation's first county-level Pay for success (PFS) project aimed at reducing the amount of time children whose families are homeless stay in foster care. In November 2019, Geoffrey Gund retired as president of The George Gund Foundation. The board elected Catherine Gund as his successor. At

1633-451: The Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail. Cleveland Metroparks began construction on the northern section of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail in August 2016. The track bed, large portions of which were in a cut below street level, had been partially filled by illegal dumping, and the portion under Main Avenue was under water. As construction began, Ohio City Inc. (a nonprofit community development corporation ) led

1704-413: The Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. Trains began running July 4. Docks and a freight depot were built on either side of Columbus Road on Irishtown Bend. The NYP&O's rail yards extended for nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) along the southwest bank of the Old Ship Channel, around Irishtown Bend, and through Tremont . More docks were built just north of where the tracks curved westward to pass under

1775-626: The Cuyahoga River near Kingsbury Run. Westbank Development donated $ 2 million ($ 2,800,000 in 2023 dollars) worth of the purchase price to ParkWorks. ParkWorks provided the rest of the purchase price after receiving a $ 1.2 million ($ 1,700,000 in 2023 dollars) grant from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund . Initial design work for what was then called the Lake Link Trail was funded by a $ 215,000 ($ 300,000 in 2023 dollars) grant from The George Gund Foundation. ParkWorks used

1846-543: The Old Ship Channel to the Cuyahoga River opposite Kingsbury Run was sold to Westbank Development Corp., a for-profit company founded by local real estate investor Earl Walker. In 1987, Dr. Alfred M. Lee, an archeologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History , began a three-year-long series of archeological digs at Irishtown Bend. The 6.3-acre (25,000 m) dig site covered 80 former residential lots between Riverbed Street, Franklin Avenue, Columbus Road, and

1917-590: The Rosales/Schlaich Bergermann/Osborn Engineering design had been chosen as the preferred alternative. The cost of construction was estimated at $ 6 million ($ 7,700,000 in 2023 dollars). The Whiskey Island bike and pedestrian bridge design effort slowed in late 2015 and early 2016. Cleveland Metroparks officials said in February 2016 that work on the bridge had been delayed after the agency decided to make "compromises in

1988-558: The Scranton Peninsula, from Scranton Road to Columbus Road. The federal government awarded a $ 3.3 million grant for trail construction in January 2015. The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority took the lead in identifying a solution for stabilizing the soil at Irishtown Bend. In February 2015, the long-awaited Port Authority report was released. The study was conducted by the firm of Barr and Prevost and took 17 months at

2059-646: The Superior Viaduct. The railroad built a new, steam-operated dock and coal tipple in 1912 at what is now the western abutment of the Detroit-Superior Bridge . Traffic along the Cuyahoga River in this area was so extensive, the C&M had a rail yard eight tracks wide along Irishtown Bend to accommodate it. In 1914, construction began on the Detroit-Superior Bridge at the north end of Irishtown Bend. The railroad dock

2130-543: The Warren City School District. The current schools serving Warren include four PreK-8 Schools : Jefferson PK-8 School, Lincoln PK-8 School, McGuffey PK-8 School, and Willard PK-8 School. Grades 9 through 12 attend Warren G. Harding High School . The Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown also operates the private John F. Kennedy Catholic School , with a Lower Campus for grades kindergarten through 5 and an Upper Campus for grades 6 through 12. Warren

2201-411: The age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64 and 16.8% 65 or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 86.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 81.9 males. The median household income was $ 30,147 and the median family income was $ 36,158. Males had a median income of $ 32,317 versus $ 23,790 for females. The per capita income for

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2272-530: The board of trustees in 1973, and Frederick K. Cox became the foundation's president. Geoffrey Gund joined the board in 1976. Henry C. Doll served as Acting Executive Director from Lipscomb's death until August 1988. He was succeeded as acting director in September 1988 by Richard M. Donaldson. David Bergholz, the assistant director of the Allegheny Conference on Economic Development, was named

2343-507: The bridge to just 365 feet (111 m). In August 2016, Cleveland Metroparks won a $ 7.95 million ($ 10,100,000 in 2023 dollars) Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant from the federal government to pay for the bridge's construction costs. Cleveland Metroparks said it would seek bids to build the Whiskey Island pedestrian bridge before the end of 2017. The agency also said it hoped to begin construction in

2414-519: The bridge, and by June 2011 was considering three designs by architect Miguel Rosales : A traditional suspension bridge , a Fink truss bridge, and a cable-stayed bridge with curving beams overhead. Cleveland Metroparks took over the bridge planning effort in the fall of 2014. Not using the bridge design work previously conducted by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, Metroparks began soliciting new designs for

2485-482: The census of 2010, there were 41,557 people, 17,003 households, and 10,013 families living in the city. The population density was 2,576.4 inhabitants per square mile (994.8/km ). There were 20,384 housing units at an average density of 1,263.7 per square mile (487.9/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 67.7% White, 27.7% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.7% from other races, and 3.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.9% of

2556-619: The city of Cleveland, the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, and LAND Studio in a $ 125,000 ($ 200,000 in 2023 dollars) planning effort to begin the work of designing the park and the trail that would run through it. The second segment of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail opened on June 9, 2017. The proposed park design was submitted to the Cleveland Planning Commission on September 1, 2017. The park, and

2627-422: The city was $ 16,808. About 16.2% of families and 19.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.8% of those under age 18 and 9.9% of those age 65 or over. Major employers in Warren include Trumbull Memorial Hospital, St. Joseph Warren Hospital , the Tribune Chronicle , Seven Seventeen Credit Union , Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital, and Thomas Steel Strip . The Trumbull Country Club hosted

2698-418: The city's Civic Vision master plan) instead began planning to turn Riverbed Street into a biking-hiking path and converting the area into a public park. The west bank of the Cuyahoga River at Irishtown Bend has been noticeably unstable since the late 1880s. Soil, geology, the steepness of the hill, and water in the soil work together to push soil into the river until equilibrium is reached. Generally speaking,

2769-503: The design". By July 2016, The Plain Dealer newspaper was calling the design "diluted". The design changes came about due to the rising cost of implementing the winning design. To rein in costs, Metroparks decided to upgrade the existing Willow Avenue Bridge so that it could be used by cyclists and pedestrians. While retaining the Fink truss design proposed by the winning team, this shortened

2840-666: The foundation had given $ 25 million over several years to the Foundation Fighting Blindness . Catherine Gund , Agnes Gund's daughter, joined the board in 1998. By 2002, The Gund Foundation's board of trustees had grown to eight. Six Gund family members were on the board of trustees, including newly appointed trustee Zachary Gund (Gordon's son). The foundation had also begun to expand its grantmaking to include boosting nonprofit organizations doing good work but which needed funds to reorganize, reorient, or merely overcome bad luck in order to survive. Combined with

2911-511: The foundation had made grants totaling more than $ 722 million since its inception. It is the second-largest charitable foundation in Cleveland. The George Gund Foundation was created in 1952 as a private foundation by George Gund II , a businessman living in Cleveland, Ohio . Gund inherited a sizeable brewing industry fortune from his father. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Food and Fuel Control Act into law on August 10, 1917, which banned

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2982-449: The foundation trustees began re-examining the foundation's focus and decided to widen its focus to include civic, cultural, social, economic, and environmental needs. For the first time, The George Gund Foundation began supporting community organizations and began making grants to nonprofits working in the areas of affordable housing, child abuse prevention, drug abuse prevention, gun control, and juvenile justice. Under Lipscomb's guidance,

3053-463: The foundation's assets grew significantly from 1970 to 1981, reaching $ 83 million ($ 278 million in 2023 dollars). By 1972, George Gund III and Albrecht Saalfield ( Agnes Gund 's husband) had joined the board of trustees, and by 1986 there were seven staff working alongside the executive director. The foundation made $ 45 million in grants from 1970 to 1981, and another $ 50 million in grants from 1982 to 1988. Hawley E. Stark retired from

3124-484: The foundation's president. In 1967, 1968, and 1969, The George Gund Foundation made $ 9 million worth of donations, of which $ 6.5 million went to name buildings and programs in honor of George Gund II. In 1969, the foundation hired its first full-time staff person. This was James S. Lipscomb, and he served as executive director of The George Gund Foundation from 1969 until his death in June 1987. During Lipscomb's tenure,

3195-547: The fund's assets rose to just over $ 40 million ($ 376 million in 2023 dollars). George Gund II's death left the foundation in the hands of four trustees: His 27-year-old son, Gordon Gund ; George F. Karch, chairman of the Cleveland Trust Company; Frederick K. Cox, vice chairman of the Cleveland Trust Company; and Hawley E. Stark, corporate legal counsel for the Cleveland Trust Company. The latter three were all George Gund II's close friends. Stark became

3266-421: The future of the area and the abandoned C&M railroad track bed. The George Gund Foundation assisted these talks by contributing a $ 740,000 ($ 1,100,000 in 2023 dollars) planning grant. In January 2009, these groups issued a report, the "Flats Connections Plan". ParkWorks, a Cleveland nonprofit, wrote one part of the plan, which advocated turning the abandoned track bed between Kingsbury Run and Whiskey Island into

3337-660: The manufacture of retail liquor and beer for the duration of the emergency created by World War I. Unable to make beer, in May 1919 Gund purchased all 15,000 shares of the American subsidiary of the German company Kaffee HAG , which had developed a process for manufacturing instant decaffeinated coffee . Spending just $ 318,768 ($ 5.6 million in 2023 dollars) to purchase the company, Gund sold it to Kellogg's in 1927 for $ 10 million ($ 175 million in 2023 dollars). Gund became

3408-449: The middle leg of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail, remain on hold pending approval of the design and the securing of funds for hillside stabilization. The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission initially supervised planning for the pedestrian bridge linking the trail to Whiskey Island. The county received a $ 159,000 ($ 200,000 in 2023 dollars) federal grant and $ 80,000 ($ 100,000 in 2023 dollars) in private contributions to plan

3479-455: The money to hire design and engineering consultants, complete an initial design, make cost estimates, and identify funding sources. On November 7, 2011, The George Gund Foundation gave $ 2 million ($ 2,700,000 in 2023 dollars) to the project, and The Cleveland Foundation followed up in August 2014 with a $ 5 million ($ 6,400,000 in 2023 dollars) gift. In honor of the latter donation, Cleveland Metroparks , designer, builder, and eventual maintainer of

3550-454: The new executive director in November 1988. He began his tenure in January 1989. In 1990, The George Gund Foundation had assets of about $ 303.5 million ($ 708 million in 2023 dollars), and donated just over $ 11.9 million ($ 28 million in 2023 dollars) in grants that year alone. Frederick K. Cox died in 1994, and Geoffrey Gund became president. At the time he assumed the presidency, The Gund Foundation had just two full-time staff and

3621-413: The no longer extant Russia Street. The dig uncovered extensive evidence regarding the type of structures built in the neighborhood and the economics, foodways , living conditions, and social status of those living in the area. The archeological digs generated interest in preserving the site and making it accessible to the public. A study of this and other preservation issues along the Cuyahoga River valley

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3692-578: The northern part of that area. Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798, on 441 acres (1.78 km ) of land that he purchased from the Connecticut Land Company , as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve . Quinby named the town for the town's surveyor, Moses Warren. The town was the county seat of the Western Reserve, then became the Trumbull County seat in 1801. In 1833, Warren contained county buildings, two printing offices,

3763-422: The population. Of the 17,003 households 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 31.8% were married couples living together, 21.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 41.1% were non-families. 35.6% of households were one person and 13.8% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size

3834-589: The slide has been extremely slow, at most a few inches a year. At times it may even be dormant. When the soil is particularly wet or pressure is put on it from above (by adding new fill dirt or by constructing buildings on the soil), the hillside can slip as much as several feet a year. About 2004 or 2005, the Irishtown Bend hill began to subside at a significantly higher rate. In November 2005, major cracks appeared in Riverbed Street. The city repaved

3905-542: The slippage would only worsen. The Corps began studying the hillside more extensively in 2007 and 2008, and issued a report in January 2009 which concluded that a very real danger existed of the Irishtown Bend hill collapsing suddenly into the Cuyahoga River. With the instability of the Irishtown Bend making it increasingly clear that the area should not be used for residences or industry, the city of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, several nonprofit organizations, and landowners at Irishtown Bend began parallel discussions in 2006 about

3976-578: The south of Cleveland. Regarding Irishtown Bend, the report advocated a biking and hiking trail to link the area with Whiskey Island to the north and the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail in the south. The study also recommended funding for additional archaeological digs at the Bend. Although businesses located further south on the west bank of the Cuyahoga River wanted a new, four-lane "West Bank connector" road through Irishtown Bend that would give them faster access to local highways, Cleveland planners (updating

4047-493: The street in January 2006, major cracks reappeared only two weeks later. The city ordered the street closed as a safety measure. Cleveland and Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) officials began a series of meetings with the United States Army Corps of Engineers , Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), and United States Coast Guard to discussion options. Four technical studies predicted that

4118-433: The summer of 2018, and complete work at the end of 2019. The trail is owned by the city of Cleveland and maintained by Cleveland Metroparks. The 0.5-mile (0.80 km), $ 2.5 million ($ 3,100,000 in 2023 dollars) northern leg of the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail starts in the north near the intersection of River Road and Mulberry Avenue. It runs southeast between Center Street and Mulberry Avenue. Curving to

4189-535: The surrounding countryside during this period. Songwriter Stephen Foster , his wife Jane McDowell, and their daughter Marion lived briefly in Warren. During the latter decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, Warren remained an important trading and manufacturing center. By 1888, four railroads connected the community with other parts of Ohio. In that same year, there were five newspaper offices, seven churches, three banks and numerous manufacturing firms in Warren. The businesses manufactured

4260-418: The time of Geoffrey Gund's retirement, The Gund Foundation was awarding about $ 25 million ($ 29.8 million in 2023 dollars) in grants annually and had a staff of 12. The fund had distributed $ 722 million in grants during its history, $ 584 million of which came during Geoffrey Gund's tenure as president. With assets worth $ 486.9 million ($ 591 million in 2023 dollars) as of 2018, The George Gund Foundation

4331-410: The track was lost to road construction. Riverbed Street was a single-lane road running parallel to the most inland of the old C&M tracks on Irishtown Bend. The road was widened to two lanes in 1985, with the new eastern lane covering the main line of the former C&M track. In July 1993, Conrail sold the 35-acre (140,000 m) former C&M rail yard on Whiskey Island to Whiskey Island Partners,

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4402-414: The trail, said the path would be renamed the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail. By fall of 2014, the trail design effort by Cleveland Metroparks was nearing completion, land clearance had begun, and about $ 8 million ($ 10,300,000 in 2023 dollars) trail and bridge construction costs had been raised. Cleveland Metroparks said it would build the trail in four stages. The first stage would be across

4473-406: Was 2,912.4 inhabitants per square mile (1,124.5/km ). There were 21,279 housing units at an average density of 1,322.9 per square mile (510.8/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 60.94% White, 36.20% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.42% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races and 1.98% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.04% of the population. Of

4544-400: Was 2.97. The median age was 38.3 years. 23.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.2% were from 25 to 44; 25.9% were from 45 to 64; and 16% were 65 or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.1% male and 51.9% female. At the 2000 census , there were 46,832 people, 19,288 households and 12,035 families living in the city. The population density

4615-553: Was 5,973 people in 1890. Construction began on the Trumbull County Courthouse in downtown Warren on Thanksgiving Day, 1895. Warren continued to grow in the twentieth century. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, steel production was a major industry in the county because of large deposits of coal and iron ore in surrounding counties. In recent years, many Warren residents have worked in local service and retail sales businesses. In 2000, Warren

4686-756: Was Trumbull County's most populated community, with 46,832 residents. Many examples of late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles still stand in downtown Warren, including the Trumbull County Courthouse, which contains one of the largest courtrooms in the state of Ohio, and the Trumbull County Carnegie Law Library; in addition to office buildings, banks, stores, and homes surrounding the Courthouse Square area. John Ashbery mentions Warren in his poem 'Pyrography', first published in an exhibition catalogue in 1976 and included in his 1977 collection Houseboat Days . In

4757-725: Was attended by United States Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell . In June 2016, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) made an $ 80,000 ($ 100,000 in 2023 dollars) grant to Cleveland Metroparks to enable it to begin planning for hillside stabilization and the creation of the park and middle section of the trail. Cleveland Metroparks won an $ 850,000 ($ 1,100,000 in 2023 dollars) Clean Ohio grant in October 2016 to cover construction, design, and engineering costs of

4828-635: Was funded in 1990 by BP America , The Cleveland Foundation, and The George Gund Foundation . After two years of work by six governmental planning agencies, the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission released a report in April 1992 that recommended an 18-mile (29 km) series of parks, protected areas, trails, and other new infrastructure to connect Lake Erie with the Cuyahoga Valley National Park to

4899-500: Was making about $ 3.5 million ($ 7.19 million in 2023 dollars) in grants annually. In the 1990s, The Gund Foundation gave $ 15 million ($ 29.1 million in 2023 dollars) to the Great Lakes Science Center to help construct its building. Made to help improve the city's cultural offerings in time for the city's bicentennial in 1996, it was the largest single grant in the foundation's history. By 2002, however,

4970-475: Was moved 200 feet (61 m) upstream in 1917 to accommodate construction of the western abutments of the bridge, and the railroad tracks routed to run beneath one of the bridge's arches. In 1982, Conrail (the successor to the C&M) removed 3.3 miles (5.3 km) of track in Cleveland, from the terminus on Whiskey Island to the Von Willer Yard (at E. 93rd Street and Harvard Avenue). A portion of

5041-796: Was the 18th largest bank in the United States. He was one of Cleveland's richest men at the time of his death in 1966, worth about $ 200 million ($ 1.83 billion in 2023 dollars). At the end of 1953, The George Gund Foundation had assets worth just $ 166,878 ($ 1.92 million in 2023 dollars). The foundation received certification from the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in 1955. By 1960, it had about $ 30 million ($ 309,000,000 in 2023 dollars) in assets. Disbursement of funds to various causes left The George Gund Foundation with just $ 16.4 million ($ 161,100,000 in 2023 dollars) in assets by 1964. In

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