Local gems worth getting to know.
If you're looking for a downtown strip with galleries and breweries, South Russell isn't going to deliver that. What you get instead is a genuinely quiet residential village in Geauga County where
South Russell sits on the eastern edge of Cuyahoga County, where the landscape starts to roll and the suburban density drops off. If you live in the Heights or University Circle and want to hike
If you live in or around South Russell, you're sitting 16 miles from one of the most intact presidential homes in America. The James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor is not a marble
South Russell sits about 30 minutes southeast of Cleveland—far enough that you actually feel removed from the city, close enough that you're not committing to a full drive. I've done this weekend
South Russell doesn't announce itself. The village sits in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, tree-lined and residential, the kind of place people drive through on the way to somewhere else. But if you
South Russell didn't happen by accident. In 1924, a group of Cleveland businessmen and developers—most notably the Van Sweringen brothers' real estate operations and local investors—acquired rural