Beach Park Railway Museum: Meet the Museum

October 23, 2021 • 7:00 – 9:00pm

Beach Park Railway Museum, 33501 Lake Road, Avon Lake, Ohio • $50.00/person Donation Requested • Music, Dessert and Cash Bar • Progress Preview • Purchase tickets or make a donation online: Avon Lake Historical Society (heritageavonlake.org)

Think of the late 1800s. Homes in Avon Lake had no electric lights; no indoor plumbing; no telephones; no central heat; and probably no one had a car, so they were riding horses and buggies on dirt roads. The Lake Shore Electric Railway comes through Avon Lake, building a power plant to provide electricity for their trains, building a water plant, building a beautiful brick railroad station and bringing bright, beautiful, heated, electrically illuminated large trolley cars with restrooms through this sleepy town, enabling people to get to Cleveland in under 25 minutes.

Unheard of! It was the beginning of the industrial revolution that changed Avon Lake forever. Immediately residential, agricultural and commercial growth came to this little spot in Lorain County. The Lake Shore Electric Railway traveled from Cleveland to Detroit at a speed that people had never experienced before. It connected to other railways all over the State of Ohio and beyond.

Come to our Museum to experience this evolution of Avon Lake from a remote spot on the map to an impressive industrial area of northern Ohio.