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CUYAHOGA HOUSE
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Built
in 1827 at Mantua and Cuyahoga sts. (today's Diggers) for use by a stage
coach company. The Cuyahoga House gained its greatest fame as a canal
tavern. The canal boats could safely tie up nearby and the crew could
walk a short distance to the tavern. A young James Garfield was one
of those canal men. Before and during the Civil War the tavern was reputed
for secreting slaves from the south to Cleveland. There they escaped
by boat to Canada. The building was razed in 1907 - the pillars were
moved to a house on W. Main St. in Ravenna, and can still be seen today.
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