by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood, 1920-1929: Roaring Twenties, 1930-1939: Great Depression, 1940-1945: World War II, 1946-1959: Postwar + Parkway Boom, 1960-1969: Space Age + Spaced Out, 1970-1979: Protest to Punk Rock, 1980-1992: Electronic Age, 1993-2000: WWW + New Century, 2001-2020: Terror Panic to Pandemic
As part of volunteer effort to protect and present the history of Beachwood, Beachwood History.com offers free professional digitizing services for personal collections – photos, paperwork, publications, postcards, physical objects, etc – through our...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood
The text below has been taken straight from William Mill Butler’s Beachwood Directory and Who’s Who, 1924. Life Work of the Founder of Beachwood Bertram Chapman Mayo, son of Noah and Eveline R. Mayo, was born March 23rd, 1865, in Boston,...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1914-1919: Early Beachwood, 1920-1929: Roaring Twenties, 1930-1939: Great Depression, 1940-1945: World War II, 1946-1959: Postwar + Parkway Boom, 1960-1969: Space Age + Spaced Out
Below is Ruth Perry’s 1967 work of a brief report on the first fifty years of the incorporation of the Borough of Beachwood (noting the original resort, when still part of Berkeley Township, opened Decoration (Memorial) Day weekend, 1915). PREFACE The Reverend...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood
The following was created for local elementary and middle school students interested in the town’s history and/or needing a subject for a class report. Over 100 years ago, in 1913, a man named Bertram C. Mayo traveled all the way to California to meet an old...
by Erik Weber | Dec 1, 1918 | 1914-1919: Early Beachwood
Beginning in late 1918, the Beachwood Property Owners’ Association published and distributed this booklet outlining the first handful of years in the resort borough, detailing its progression from New York City-based newspaper land promotion to independent...
