Named For Lakewood

Lakewood, Ohio

Cove Avenue

VerifiedDescriptive or geographic

Named for the natural cove at the foot of the street, a popular bathing spot; cut through the W. B. Smith farm in 1873.

The author describes 1890s bathing fashions and families bringing their own curtained clothes bars to the beach.

Platted 1873

Sources

Romance in Lakewood Streets
Margaret Manor Butler · 1962 · p. 36

Community notes

See Cove Avenue on the map →