. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO 103 no lands west of that river were open to entrance or survey, andsettlers ventured there at their own risk. This was the IndianBoundary Line, established in 1795, and beyond it the aborigines hadexclusive right of occupancy. It was for the purpose of surveying- and developing theselands that Capt. Cleaveland undertook his expeditions intothe Western Reserve. The first of t
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO 103 no lands west of that river were open to entrance or survey, andsettlers ventured there at their own risk. This was the IndianBoundary Line, established in 1795, and beyond it the aborigines hadexclusive right of occupancy. It was for the purpose of surveying- and developing theselands that Capt. Cleaveland undertook his expeditions intothe Western Reserve. The first of these expeditions (1795)was composed of 50 men, women and children who arrivedat Ft. Independence (now Conneaut) on Lake Erie, July 4,1796. Pushing on further, they arrived at the present siteof Cleveland, and in a few days the first log cabin was erectedat the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. To keep the commissary supplied was no easy problem in thenew settlement. Sometimes they ate boiled rattlesnake in default. City of Cleveland from Reservoir Walk (1873) of anything better. On one occasion, while the little band of set-tlers was assembled in prayer in one of the log cabins, someoneespied a bear swimming across the Cuyahoga River. The comingof the bear was looked upon as providential, and the congregationsuspended the prayer-meeting, killed the bear, and then returnedto their devotions. Capt. Cleavelands plans for his new settlement wereambitious, and he built a number of substantial roads throughthe forests, usually following the old Indian trails, now theright of way of the New York Central and other lines. Withthe opening of the Ohio Canal to the Ohio River (1832),Cleveland became the natural outlet on Lake Erie for Ohios 104 THE GREATEST HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD extensive agricultural and mineral products. The discoveryand commercial exploitation (beginning about 1840) of largedeposits of iron ore in the Lake Superior region placed Cleve-land in a strategic position between thes
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