{"id":1842,"date":"2013-07-25T10:03:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/?page_id=1842"},"modified":"2013-07-25T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:05:54","slug":"bigfallscuyahoga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/bigfallscuyahoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Falls on the Cuyahoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An area of natural beauty in the Gorge,\u00a0the Big Falls of the Cuyahoga River has the largest waterfalls in that reach of the Cuyahoga River. \u00a0Early texts\u00a0describe the beauty of the falls and early\u00a0photographs\u00a0depict that it was a popular place to visit and attracted many vacationers.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/858\/2012\/10\/big-falls1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Falls at Gorge MetroPark\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/858\/2012\/10\/big-falls1-e1363976698402-300x188.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two women travelers admiring The Falls circa 1900 (SCHS Pockrandt).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Called Coppocaw by Native Americans, the Big Falls are partly under the damn constructed by the Northen Ohio Traction &amp; Light company\u00a0in 1911 to supply a water pond for their plant on Front Street and the Hydroelectric Plant further downstream. \u00a0After the damn was constructed, the falls remained an attraction for park\u00a0visitors, because\u00a0the dam provided a larger, artificial waterfall.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/858\/2013\/01\/falls-n-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/858\/2013\/01\/falls-n-family-1024x647.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family of visitors at The Big Falls (CFHS).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An area of natural beauty in the Gorge,\u00a0the Big Falls of the Cuyahoga River has the largest waterfalls in that reach of the Cuyahoga River. \u00a0Early texts\u00a0describe the beauty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1407,"featured_media":2214,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1842","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1842\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/cap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}