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Beachwood, OH - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Beachwood  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Beachwood Home page. The Beachwood Home page provides as much information as possible on Beachwood. Knowing Beachwood’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Beachwood’s Home page, you will also find Beachwood’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Beachwood has a population of 11627. 45% of Beachwood’s inhabitants are Male, and 55 are female. 54.5% of Beachwood is married and 57.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $299,969, and the average rent is $1,706. Household median income in Beachwood is $88,709, and the individual median income is $43,581. Beachwood’s Ethnic is the following: White(74.2%), Asian(11.9%), Black(10.9%), Hispanic(3.8%), Multiple(2.6%), Other(0.3%), Pacific(0.1%).


The land that eventually became Beachwood was originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Before becoming an independent municipality, Beachwood was part of Warrensville Township. In 1915, it seceded from Warrensville after the Township voted to close a nearby area school. A petition was organized, and on June 26, 1915, Beachwood was incorporated into an independent village.


In 1960, Beachwood had reached the number of residents to attain city status under the Ohio Revised Code.Beachwood was named for the numerous Beech trees that grew throughout the village. The origin of the spelling of the city is disputed. Upon incorporation, the city's name was originally spelled, "Beechwood".


One popular theory is that an early village hall clerk misspelled the name on some official documents, giving rise to the current spelling.In 1948, a village wide debate was sparked after the proposal of the construction of the Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple following the purchase of 32 acres of land on which the temple currently stands.


The debate started due to the growing trend of families moving to the suburbs due to the booming post WWII economy. Considering that Beachwood at the time was a small community with few Jews, the sudden proposal of the large synagogue of 1,800 families sparked anti-Semitic worries among the village's community due to the imminent demographics change that the establishment of a large synagogue would bring.


The village council, no member of which was Jewish, cited in 1952 that the establishment of Anshe Chesed "would be detrimental to the public safety, welfare, and convenience of the village". One morning in May 1952, following Anshe Chesed's threat to sue the village of Beachwood, residents opened their mailboxes and found a white supremacist newspaper called The Plain Truth, with the message: Zoning arguments between the village and the congregation regarding the temple's construction led to the Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that the synagogue must be allowed to be built, as well as issuing state building permits to the congregation.


The temple's construction was finished in 1957.Since the late 1950s, multiple other synagogues relocated to Beachwood, establishing the Jewish influence on the growth of the community.


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