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Old Brooklyn is a west side neighborhood of Cleveland, extending east-to-west from the Cuyahoga...

Old Brooklyn is a west side neighborhood of Cleveland, extending east-to-west from the Cuyahoga River to the City of Brooklyn and north-to-south from the Brookside Park Valley to the City of Parma. Originally a portion of Brooklyn Township, the area was settled permanently in 1814 as the hamlet of Brighton, centered at the present-day intersection of Pearl and Broadview Roads. The Brighton area was incorporated as South Brooklyn Village in 1889 and then annexed with other surrounding villages by the City of Cleveland during the years of 1905-1927. The first instance of white habitation, here, may have occurred prior to Brighton's founding, when fur trader Joseph Du Shattar established a trading post on the west bank of the Cuyahoga River, across from Newburgh, in about 1790. During the late 1880s, farmers in the Schaaf Road area (now known as South Hills) were among the first in the Midwest to use greenhouses to cultivate vegetables. By the 1920s the neighborhood was one of the nation's leading producers of greenhouse vegetables, with more than 100 acres (0.40 km) under glass. Most of the greenhouses were displaced during the past three decades by new housing and the construction