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<br />? <br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2008 - 21 <br />BY: Mayor O'Grady and the entire City Council <br />A RESOL UTION A UTHORIZING THE MA YOR OF THE CITY OF <br />NORTH OLMSTED, IN COOPERATION WITH THE OLMSTED <br />HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE <br />LANDMARKS COMMISSION, TO FILE AN APPLICATION WITH <br />THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR APPRO VAL OF AN OHIO <br />HISTORICAL DESIGNATION MARKER FOR THE JOSEPH PEAKE <br />FARM; AND PROVIDING AUTHORITY FOR THE INSTALLATION <br />OF SUCH MARKER WITHIN THE CITY RIGHT OF WAY; AND <br />DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. <br />WHEREAS, the Mayor and the City of North Olmsted Landmarks Commission, <br />working in cooperation with the Olmsted Historical Society, having researched the <br />historical significance of the Joseph Peake Farm on the south side of Mastick Road, east <br />of Clague Road, recommends that it be qualified for designation and granted a marker of <br />historical significance by the Ohio Historical Society; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted, Ohio, recognizing the initiative of the <br />Landmarks Commission and efforts of the Olmsted Historical Society, working with the <br />Mayor and Director of Planning, is very proud to support this proposal to officially <br />designate, recognize and mark the historical significance of Joseph Peake and his Farm, <br />who was born the son of George Peake in 1792, a runaway slave from Maryland, who <br />came with his family to Ohio in 1809 as the first African-American settlers in the <br />Cleveland area, and who later in the 1840s established the Joseph Peake Farm on then <br />Mastick Plank Road in North Olmsted with his wife Eleanor; and <br />WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted, Ohio recognizes that Joseph and Eleanor <br />Peake were active members of the community, that Joseph voted in Olmsted Township <br />elections and that Eleanor was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which first <br />met in the Union House of Worship, located at the eastern end of Butternut Ridge Road. <br />In 1843 anti-slave Methodists formed the Wesleyan Church and in 1847 the Olmsted <br />Wesleyans built their own church at Barton and Lorain (relocated to Frostville in 2005); <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the City of North Olmsted, Ohio recognizes the historical and <br />courageous efforts of Joseph and Eleanor Peake, who were rumored to have worked with <br />the Wesleyan church to offer aid and shelter to runaway slaves traveling between Oberlin <br />and Cleveland, in defiance of law at the time, and to provide safe passage at the Joseph <br />Peake Farm for what has become known as the underground railroad; and <br />