Riverview Road is an approximately seventeen-mile rural highway corridor which lines the Cuyahoga River. The corridor begins at Merriman Road in the city of Akron and extends north through Cuyahoga Valley National Park to Brookside Road in the city of Independence. Riverview Road is plotted along the historic corridors of the Ohio & Erie Canal and Valley Railroad. The corridor was designated as part of the 110-mile-long Ohio & Erie Canalway Scenic Byway during June 2000. Part 1; the history of Riverview Road Riverview Road follows the general corridor of the Ohio & Erie Canal along the Cuyahoga River. Said canal was completed during 1827 as a navigable waterway between Lake Erie in Cleveland south to the Ohio River in Portsmouth. In 1861 freight traffic on the Ohio & Erie Canal was shuttered which led to an economic decline in the communities along the Cuyahoga River. The canal was repurposed to supply water to ...
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