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Paperback Cleveland's Lighthouses Book

ISBN: 0738560561

ISBN13: 9780738560564

Cleveland's Lighthouses

(Part of the Images of America: Ohio Series)

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Missionary-geographer John Heckewelder was prophetic in the 1790s when he mapped the place where the Cuyahoga River flows into Lake Erie. He wrote, "Cujahaga will hereafter be a place of great importance." In 1796, surveyors arrived to plot a new town and named it after their superintendent, Moses Cleaveland. Soon Cleveland (the a was omitted on early maps) was a magnet for inventors and entrepreneurs. By 1829-1830, a lighthouse was necessary to support...

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