Kingsbury Run

Kingsbury Run is the name that refers to an area on the southeast side of Cleveland, Ohio, located near the suburb of Shaker Heights.[1] The area stretches westward through Kinsman Road.[2] It contained a natural watershed that ran through East 79th Street and carried storm waters into the Cuyahoga River, draining them from the areas now known as Maple Heights and Warrensville Heights.[3] Kingsbury Run was named after James Kingsbury (1767–1847), one of the earliest settlers in the Western Reserve, who became the first inhabitant of Newburgh in 1797.[4] It is also the route through which the RTA Rapid Transit travels on its way to Public Square in downtown Cleveland.

Kingsbury Run became notorious in the mid-1930s when an unidentified serial killer, the Cleveland Torso Murderer, used the area as a dumping ground for the dismembered remains of some of their first victims.

Sidaway Bridge
Sidaway Bridge
Coordinates41.48°N 81.644°W / 41.48; -81.644
History
Construction start1929
Construction end1930
Closed1966

Between Sidaway Avenue and East 65th Street the Kingsbury Run ravine is spanned by the Sidaway Bridge, Cleveland's first and only suspension span, a footbridge which connects the Jackowo and Kinsman Road neighborhoods.[5] Due to damage caused during the Hough riots, the bridge was closed in 1966 and remains inaccessible.[6] Continued closure of the bridge influenced Frank J. Battisti's ruling in the case Robert Anthony Reed III v. Rhodes regarding desegregation in the Cleveland schools.[7]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kingsbury Run
  2. Lytle, Alea. "Kingsbury Run". Cleveland Historical. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
  3. "KINGSBURY RUN". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
  4. "KINGSBURY, JAMES". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Retrieved 2013-09-10.
  5. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. OH-9, "Sidaway Avenue Footbridge, Jackowo & Garden Valley neighborhood vicinity, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH", 3 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page
  6. Rose, Danielle; Dubelko, Jim. "Sidaway Bridge - A Bridge over Troubled Neighborhoods". Cleveland Historical. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  7. Caroline, Drew; Sweeney, Scofield (2020-07-22). "Sidaway Bridge once connected Black and white neighborhoods. Now it connects us to the past". WEWS-TV. Retrieved 2020-07-24.


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