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The Forgotten will benefit the Forest Hill Park Association
Participants must either:
1) Donate to the East Cleveland Park Association thru RFGB
OR
2) Participate in a clean up effort days to remove trash from Forest Hill Park.
FOREST HILL HISTORY
John D. Rockefeller Estate
Forest Hill was once the sweeping estate of oil baron John D. Rockefeller. Originally from a small town near the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, Rockefeller purchased the land along Euclid Avenue as a commercial venture in 1873, opening (along with other investors) a “water cure resort” centered around a Victorian mansion built on a hilltop overlooking Cleveland and Lake Erie. After the resort quickly went out of business, the mansion became the Rockefeller family’s summer home, dubbed the “Homestead.” The Rockefellers split time between here and their home on Euclid Avenue’s Millionaires’ Row until the family moved to New York City in 1884, after which point they returned to Forest Hill each summer. After his wife died in 1915, however, John D. Rockefeller seldom returned to Cleveland and Forest Hill. The “Homestead” burned down under mysterious circumstances in 1917.
Forest Hill Park
Rockefeller sold Forest Hill to his son John Rockefeller Jr. in 1923 for $2.8 million. In 1939, Rockefeller Jr. donated the Forest Hill acreage to the cities of Cleveland Heights and East Cleveland with the express stipulation that they be used for public recreation. This land included the site of the old Rockefeller house (now used as a sledding hill), and was developed into a public park by the landscape architect and Cleveland Heights native A. D. Taylor. The park opened in 1942, allowing members of the public to at last savor the cool lake breezes previously enjoyed by the richest man in the world. Picnic areas, walking trails, ballfields, and a swimming pool were some of the amenities added to the park over the years
Current Forest Hill Park
Forest Hill is a 235-acre park located on the edge of the Appalachian Mountain foothills in East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, OH. Overall, the park is about 40 percent forest and 45 percent meadow. There is much natural beauty intermixed with decades of neglect, underfunding, refuse, and ruins. It remains an oasis of nature that should be cared for and NEVER FORGOTTEN.
Course Map
Subject to change!!
Clean Up Efforts (Date TBD)
Two dates will be organized in coordination with the East Cleveland Park Association to clean up a heavily littered section of Forest Hill Park