Shaker Heights

Shaker Heights
a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland. 34,759.

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      city and southeastern residential suburb of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It was planned and developed after 1905 by Oris P. and Mantis J. van Sweringen, two entrepreneurs from Cleveland, on the site of North Union, a former Shaker colony (1822–89), and was incorporated as a village in 1911. A rapid-transit rail system to downtown Cleveland has been in operation since 1920.

      Shaker Heights was originally an exclusive community known for its many expensive homes and estates with landscaped parks and lakes (once the sites of Shaker gristmills, sawmills, and woolen mills). Since the 1960s the city has pursued policies that have encouraged racial and ethnic integration in its neighbourhoods. The Shaker Historical Society and Museum, located on the site of a North Union Shaker dwelling, displays collections of Shaker furniture and artifacts. The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes includes self-guided trails. Inc. city, 1931. Pop. (2000) 29,405; (2005 est.) 27,723.

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