This document provides information about a walking tour hosted by the Euclid Historical Society on June 15, 2014 to explore Lilly Creek and the beaches of Euclid, Ohio. The tour will be led by Roy Larick and focus on the history of Lilly Creek, Utopia Beach, Arcadia Beach, and the surrounding areas. Details are provided about the creek's path and ecological features as well as the historical residences of Orrin Lilly and Isaac Newton, whose properties encompassed the land now occupied by the beaches.

1. City of Euclid
Recreation
Program
Sunday, June 15, 2014, 5 pm
Roy Larick
Euclid
Historical
Society
Lilly Creek
Euclidian Place walking tour
Utopia Beach
Arcadia Beach
216-289-8114 afinch@cityofeuclid.com
Explore Euclid’s Lake Erie beaches!
Arcadia & Utopia Beaches
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Celebrating
three years of
Euclidian Place
Led by
Bluestone
Heights

2. Lilly Creek’s Portage Escarpment headwaters descend in the
Beverly Hills and Sherwood boulevard ravines.
The stream is entirely culverted across the lake plain.

3. Lilly Creek has the widest mouth of any Euclid
escarpment run.
The beach back slope functions ecologically as
an intermittent estuary.
Utopia Beach
Arcadia Beach
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West and northwest swells can push lake water
over the beach crest and into the back slope
lagoon area. Before culverting, such action
delivered lake life to the stream mouth.

4. Orrin Lilly’s house, at 81 E 200th, is Euclid’s unique
example of a Great Lake’s ‘captain’s residence.
Arriving to Euclid in the 1840s, Orrin Lilly’s life revolved
around Great Lakes shipping. He sailed for many years
and, in winters, worked at the Euclid Creek shipyard.

5. Parts of the bathhouse foundation can be seen in beach fore-
slope, especially after a northeast (erosive) swell.
In 1898, the Shore Line interurban railroad opened along the
Lake Rd, from Public Square to Willoughby. This gave impetus for
a number of Moss Point resorts, including Lilly’s-on-the-Lake.
Lilly Creek can be seen passing in front of the bathhouse.
The Arcadia and Utopia beach clubs are functional
descendants of Lilly’s-on-the-Lake.

6. USGS LiDAR underlay; Cram (1892) overlay railsandtrails.com Google Earth aerial viewer
Back of the Newton house compound, 1917.
Lots 2 (Newton) and 3 (Lilly), 1898
Isaac Newton & Utopia Beach
R. Larick
In 1892, New Yorker, Isaac Newton, bought
lakeshore lot 2 (50 a) on which to build a winery.
The Utopia Beach allotments began with lot 2.
Newton’s cold storage facility, now
the Utopia Beach clubhouse.
Newton barn.
Ambrose Dowd, Newton’s foreman, in the vineyard.
District 3 Berwick schoolhouse.
Built, 1880s; demolished, 1929.
Orrin Lilly house, 81 E 201st St.
Lots 2 (Newton)
and 3, 1920
R. Larick
Euclid History Museum
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7. City of Euclid
Recreation
Program
Sunday, June 15, 2014, 5 pm
Roy Larick
Euclid
Historical
Society
Lilly Creek
Euclidian Place walking tour
Utopia Beach
Arcadia Beach
216-289-8114 afinch@cityofeuclid.com
Explore Euclid’s Lake Erie beaches!
Arcadia & Utopia Beaches
Google Earth aerial viewer
Celebrating
three years of
Euclidian Place
Led by
Bluestone
Heights