Here are some highlights of Brook Park history:
1807: U.S Postmaster Gideon Granger gains control of Township 6, Range 14—the future Middleburgh Township.
1809: The Hickox family starts to settle the township.
1836: Berea becomes a village.
1907: Voters reject a bid to incorporate the rest of the township as a village.
1914: Voters in an area known as North Middleburgh Township incorporate it as the village of Brook Park.
1925: Brook Park is ordered to close its independent school district and join Berea's.
Mid-1920s: Cleveland begins buying and annexing farm land in Brook Park for the future Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
1928-49: The airport's National Air Races lead many spectators to pay to park on Brook Park farms.
1930: A rerouted train hits a rerouted school bus at a Sheldon Road crossing without signals, killing the driver and nine of the 10 children aboard.
1942: A site opens that will mostly be known over the years as the Cleveland Tank Plant and the I-X Center.
1950: Brook Park becomes a city.
1951-1955: Ford Motor Co. opens its second biggest complex, with two engine plants and a foundry.
1950s: Fueled by Ford and the G.I. bill, the population soars from 2,600 to 13,000.
2001: Voters approve a complex land deal with Cleveland that, in part, gives the NASA Glenn Research Center to Brook Park and lets Cleveland raze homes for a runway still not built.
2013-14: Ford retools Engine Plant No. 1 to add a line of EcoBoost engines.
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