East Cleveland, OH to Erie, PA - 90

This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 90 east from Cleveland, Ohio to Erie, Pennsylvania. It offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and especially stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.

Pay attention to the shape of the land as you make your way east. The route begins in hills left behind when the last of the glaciers receded from this area over 10,000 years ago. As I-90 proceeds eastward, it goes downhill until reaching flat land: the bed of a lake that once covered the region. Growing conditions along this strip of flat land bordering Lake Erie are different than those even a few miles inland. The region is particularly fitted for growing fruit, and you'll see vineyards along the route, particularly in Ashtabula Countythe largest producer of grapes for wine and juice in Ohio.

The region was once called New Connecticut or the Connecticut Western Reserve. The state of Connecticut regarded northeast Ohio as its colony and sent explorers and settlers to the region. Today, remnants of that era can be seen in place names, architecture, family histories, and a certain "Yankee" tone to the region.

During the late 1700s and early 1800s most settlers in this area came from New England and upstate New York. But in the years that followed, waves of immigrants arrived from Europe and other regions in the United States. The industrialization of Northeast Ohio was fed by these new residents and so this region that once was a monolithic Yankee enclave became one of the most diverse in Ohio.

This tour covers ....  Starting in Cleveland,Exit 193 Mentor, Kirtland,Exit 212 Madison, Thompson,Exit 228 Ashtabula,Exit 3 West Springfield

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This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 90 east from Cleveland, Ohio to Erie, Pennsylvania. It offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and especially stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.

Pay attention to the shape of the land as you make your way east. The route begins in hills left behind when the last of the glaciers receded from this area over 10,000 years ago. As I-90 proceeds eastward, it goes downhill until reaching flat land: the bed of a lake that once covered the region. Growing conditions along this strip of flat land bordering Lake Erie are different than those even a few miles inland. The region is particularly fitted for growing fruit, and you'll see vineyards along the route, particularly in Ashtabula Countythe largest producer of grapes for wine and juice in Ohio.

The region was once called New Connecticut or the Connecticut Western Reserve. The state of Connecticut regarded northeast Ohio as its colony and sent explorers and settlers to the region. Today, remnants of that era can be seen in place names, architecture, family histories, and a certain "Yankee" tone to the region.

During the late 1700s and early 1800s most settlers in this area came from New England and upstate New York. But in the years that followed, waves of immigrants arrived from Europe and other regions in the United States. The industrialization of Northeast Ohio was fed by these new residents and so this region that once was a monolithic Yankee enclave became one of the most diverse in Ohio.

This tour covers ....  Starting in Cleveland,Exit 193 Mentor, Kirtland,Exit 212 Madison, Thompson,Exit 228 Ashtabula,Exit 3 West Springfield

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