The Brooklyn Centre neighborhood is located on Cleveland’s southwest side, bordered by Tremont and Clark Fulton neighborhoods to the north, Old Brooklyn to the south, and the Cuyahoga River to the east. Brooklyn Centre was once part of Brooklyn Township, one of the original settlements west of the Cuyahoga River in the 19th century.
Need additional assistance? For more information, please contact our Center for Local and Global History
Phone: 216-623-2864 Email: clgh@cpl.org
Books
Microfilm/Microfiche
Microfilm resources may include newspaper clippings, city reports, and other historical documents. Depending on the scope of the work, these items may be available in several departments, including History, the Microform Center, or Public Administration Library.
Center for Local and Global History:
Newspaper Clipping File-Neighborhoods-Brooklyn Township
Photographs
For more information about the neighborhood photos, please contact the Photograph Collection.
The Photograph Collection has 1.3 million items, including a large collection of historical images for Cleveland and northeast Ohio. A small portion of them are available in our digital collection.
For specific photo requests, please think about important streets, intersections, institutions like schools, businesses, churches, and other important landmarks. This will help aid in our research.