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...band of farsighted Nutmeggers had plans for that territory. For $1,200,000 they bought title to these 3,000,000-plus acres of Ohio land from the state.* Then, in 1796, they sent a survey party, led by burly, action-loving General Moses Cleaveland, into the wilderness to inspect the prize...
Plagued by dysentery and mosquitoes, Cleaveland's men followed the paths their axmen hacked through the oak and hemlock. When food gave out, they broiled rattlesnakes, washed the meat down with rum. At the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, the leader paced off a ten-acre town square in the New England tradition, and set some of his men to work building log-cabin shelters. Result: Cleveland, Ohio-lacking an "a" because the party's mapmaker left...
Running a fast eye over the Western Reserve's 150-year history, Author Hatcher traces its mushrooming from a scattering of lonely, mud-bogged farms and white, New England-style towns into today's mill-studded industrial area. There is a sharp parallel between Cleaveland's early settlers and the impoverished mid-igth Century immigrants from Europe who also got a new hold on life in Ohio...
...July 22, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his band of a dozen nosed their little craft into a winding stream and decided that there, where a river met the lake, would be a good place for another town site. The Yankees built a couple of log cabins and left one family-Job Stiles and his wife-to hold the franchise...
...There is no historical record of how & when Cleaveland became Cleveland. The legend: one of the town's earliest editors dropped the A because it made his journal's masthead too long; no one complained, so it was never used again. *Among other good catches: a Glenn L. Martin plastics plant; a Butler Brothers metallurgical plant; a Fruehauf Trailer Co. assembly factory. *Greater Cleveland (pop. 1,250,000) is Cuyahoga County. Cleveland has 13 suburbs ranked as cities (the largest is Lakewood with 65,900 population) and 41 suburbs ranked as villages...