Surveyors name Cleveland

While laying out Connecticut's Western Reserve into townships and a capital city, surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company established the town on July 22, 1796, near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. The settlement was named after General Moses Cleaveland, one of the largest shareholders and one of the company's first directors, who was in charge of conducting the first company survey of the Western Reserve in 1796 and planned the settlement with Seth Pease. The town's name was often shortened to "Cleveland," including by Cleaveland's original surveyors.