Ohio Historical Markers, OH

Contents

• Thumbnails
• Johnny Appleseed
• Cornelius Battelle
• Resin Beall
• Elizabeth Blackwell
• Philip Paul Bliss
• Moses Cleaveland
• Betsey Mix Cowles
• Israel Donalson, Nathaniel Massie
• Joshua Giddings
• William and Catherine Hubbard
• Thomas Kirker
• Charles Kettering
• Chales Matheny
• Lelia Naylor Morris
• Ransom, Pliny Olds
• Lemuel Porter
• William and Abigail Woodward
• Ebenezer Zane
• Fort Washington

Historical Marker

On July 4, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his survey party landed at the mouth of Conneaut Creek on the southern shore of Lake Erie in what is today Conneaut, Ohio. The Connecticut Land Company, a private land speculation enterprise, had hired General Cleaveland as its agent to survey the Connecticut Western Reserve lands and to found a settlement along the Cuyahoga River, later named Cleveland. Group members pitched tents and erected a crude shelter to protect the provisions and survey equipment before celebrating the independence of the new country with toasts and salutes. The next day they organized into field groups to begin the historic survey of measuring the townships and ranges of the Western Reserve.

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Posted By: Ray Gurganus