LIBERTY ROW - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

LIBERTY ROW was dedicated on Memorial Day 1919 to honor Cleveland-area soldiers who had died during World War I. The memorial consisted of a series of oak trees planted from Gordon Park on Lake Erie into SHAKER HEIGHTS The trees stretched along the then newly renamed Liberty Blvd. (formerly the Lower East Blvd., and after 1981, part of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr.) through Gordon, Rockefeller, and Wade parks, up Ambler Dr. into CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, and then along North Park into Shaker Hts. A round bronze plaque bearing the name of a dead serviceman was placed in front of each tree. Many of the trees remained standing into the 1990s. However, a number of the name plaques had been destroyed or stolen by vandals during the 1960s-1980s.

See also MONUMENTS.

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