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The City of Cleveland, Ohio was named after Moses Cleaveland, a surveyor of the Connecticut Land Company.
Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. September 8 - French...
- Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition...
"Cleaveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party, a month after white settlers had signed a treaty with local Indians to acquire the land. Cleaveland laid out the plan for the...