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  2. Cuyahoga River - Wikipedia

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    The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at 1,093 feet (333 m) over 84 miles (135 km) from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to 571 feet (174 m) [4] at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively ...

  3. The Big Us - Wikipedia

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    McEldowney left in May 1969 to work in an antiwar GI coffeehouse in South Carolina, and starting with the issue of Oct. 14, 1969 (vol. 3, no. 2) the paper changed its name to Burning River News, commemorating a famous incident in which the toxic waste on the surface of the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland caught fire. In 1970 it merged with ...

  4. Smoke on the Water: What We Can Learn 50 Years After ... - AOL

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    In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River-the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades-spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of ...

  5. Robert Jones (Ohio lawyer) - Wikipedia

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    After leaving the U.S. Attorney's office in 1972, Jones was brought in to the Cleveland Legal Department. Perk left office in 1977. The Ohio EPA, The NEORSD, The City of Cleveland and many others have celebrated the 50th anniversary of the recovery of the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie since the fire of 1969, including events and news articles.

  6. Lake Erie - Wikipedia

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    Incidents occurred of the oily surfaces of tributary rivers emptying into Lake Erie catching fire: in 1969, Cleveland's Cuyahoga River erupted in flames, [101] chronicled in a Time magazine article which lamented a tendency to use rivers flowing through major cities as "convenient, free sewers"; [59] the Detroit River caught fire on another ...

  7. June 1969 - Wikipedia

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    The Cuyahoga River at Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire after an oil slick floating on the river ignited. [96] Factories along the Cuyahoga had regularly dumped their waste products into the waters for decades. Before it was extinguished, the floating blaze burned two wooden railroad trestles and warped the tracks, with an estimated repair cost of ...

  8. River fire - Wikipedia

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    River fire may refer to: Mendocino Complex Fire, a 2018 California wildfire that consisted of the smaller fires, the River Fire and the Ranch Fire; Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a river famous for catching fire in 1969; River Fire (2020), a wildfire in Monterey County, California; River Fire (2021), a wildfire in Placer and Nevada Counties, California

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Cleveland

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    There are 438 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Cuyahoga County, including 4 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Cleveland is the location of 278 of these properties and districts, including 3 of the National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the remainder are listed separately. Four properties and ...