Lakewood, Ohio

VerifiedFounding families and early settlers

Named for Henry Beach, a fruit grower who came to Lakewood in 1864 and whose large house stood on Detroit at Beach.

Beach, said to be the first white child born in Elyria Township, came with wife Sabrina Frost and five-year-old daughter Emma. His house grew to seventeen rooms and was heated with gas found on his land. He built the ten-suite Beach Terrace, supplied with heat and light by three gas wells. Neither book says outright that the street was named for him. It is Verified under the landowner rule: the Beach family owned and divided the land at Beach and Detroit, and no source names anyone else.

Named for

Henry Beach (came 1864). Fruit grower and builder of Beach Terrace, heated by gas wells on his land.

Homestead: Seventeen-room house at Detroit and Beach

Sources

Contributed by

Nathan Noll

Community notes

See Beach Avenue on the map →