stories

Histories

stories of the past and present

  • “…for us to be kids and didn’t have no money, we found a way to express ourselves, to gather, to dance, to dress.” -Mikel Jordan

  • “…my father and my two uncles, that was the thing that I was blessed with.” -Huey Haynes II

  • Although Mount Pleasant was not annexed by the city of Cleveland until 1913, groups of German, Italian and Russian immigrants began to reside in the neighborhood in the mid-1800s.

  • The Miles School, located at the corner of Miles Avenue and E. 120th Street, was home to a school garden.

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