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Cleveland is a city in White County, Georgia, located 90 miles (140 km) northeast of Atlanta and 128 miles (206 km) southeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its population was 3,514 at the 2020 census. [4] It is the county seat of White County. [5]
Bird's-eye view map of Cleveland in 1877. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company on July 22, 1796. Its central location on the southern shore of Lake Erie and the mouth of the Cuyahoga River allowed it to become a major center for Great Lakes trade in northern Ohio in the early 19th century.
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History was the brainchild of Dr. David Van Tassel, a history professor at Case Western Reserve University and the creator of National History Day. Van Tassel was approached by Homer Wadsworth, the director of The Cleveland Foundation, to write a history of Cleveland. Van Tassel decided that the project was best ...
The museum was first proposed in 1992. [3] A committee was created on March 9, 1992 to study the feasibility of establishing a museum which would be "an organized and permanent non-profit institution, essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose, with professional staff, which owns and utilizes tangible objects, cares for them and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule."
The Old White County Courthouse is a historic county [2] courthouse building [3] in Cleveland, Georgia, and home [4] to the White County Historical Society. It was built in 1859. [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1970.
The textile maker made a large addition to an existing mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1925. At this time the Tennessee city was the second largest producer of hosiery in the United States. [3] Peerless Woolen Mills built a new manufacturing plant in Cleveland, Tennessee in 1955.
Ross's Landing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the last site of the Cherokee's 61-year occupation of Chattanooga and is considered to be the embarkation point of the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears. Ross's Landing Riverfront Park memorializes the location, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cleveland Institute of Music founded. Cleveland becomes the fifth-largest city in the nation. The Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment become law. Cleveland Indians win the World Series. Cleveland Museum of Natural History established. Population: 796,841. [9] 1921 Cleveland Clinic and Playhouse Square established. KeyBank State Theatre built.