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Cleveland Information
In 1796 General Moses Cleaveland arrived with some surveyors from the Connecticut Land Company. He reported back that he laid out a town on the bank of Lake Erie. The following year four families moved into the city.
Only seven residents remained in the new settlement when the 19th century began. A few years later, in 1803, the area became an official part of the country when the State of Ohio was created. Settlers could buy salt, considered a luxury, that came from Pittsburgh at $20 a barrel. The population of Cleveland had grown to 57 in 1810. As the War of 1812 began, Public Square was a cow pasture and the city's first lawyer and physician started business. While most settlers were farmers, other industries emerged, including a bank, taverns, general stores and tanneries.
As the Ohio Canal neared completion, more people and industries came to Cleveland. The population was at 606 in 1820. A decade later the population was 1,075. Also during the 1820s, The Flats became Cleveland's center of industry with several docks and warehouses opening.
Cleveland continued to develop as a center of manufacturing, with businesses that made iron, steam engines, carriages, soap and candles. With 5,080 people calling Cleveland home in the middle of the decade, more church congregations were organized. There were three churches in 1830 and eight congregations in 1837. |
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