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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.
Hippie City; Youngstown. The City of You; Crimetown, USA [76] Murdertown, USA [77] [78] The Steel Valley [citation needed] Steeltown, U.S.A. [79] The 330; The Three Three Yo (Combination of the city’s area code, 330, with the first two letters of its name) Poster Child for Deindustrialization [80] Yompton (In reference to Compton, California ...
2005 – Frank G. Jackson is the first sitting city councillor to be elected mayor since Stephen Buhrer in 1867. [13] 2006 Barons leave Cleveland for the second time. Cleveland, Columbus, and other Ohio cities argue against a bill passed by the Ohio House legislature that will eliminate residency rules. 2007
2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [544] [545] [546] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded
[130] [131] A 2016 study on immigrants in Ohio concluded that immigrants make up 6.7% of all entrepreneurs in Ohio although they are just 4.2% of Ohio's population, and that these immigrant-owned businesses generated almost $532 million in 2014. The study also showed that "immigrants in Ohio earned $15.6 billion in 2014 and contributed $4.4 ...
First city in the U.S. to hold a municipal song festival, named Saengerfest; Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio relocates to Cincinnati. [16] Carthage Road Cemetery founded. 1850 Cincinnati Volksfreund begins publication. First city in the U.S. where a Jewish hospital was founded ; Population: 115,435. [5]
In 1926, Plumb objected to an attempt by the similarly named Plomb Tool Company to register its name as a trademark. The companies negotiated an agreement, but in 1946, Plumb sued for trademark infringement because Plomb had violated the terms of this agreement. [1] The Plomb company began selling tools under the Proto name instead. [4]
6 shot .36 caliber percussion pepperbox by Allen & Thurber (Worcester). Barrel flute bears 1837 patent date, hammer is marked "Allen's Patent". Ethan Allen (September 2, 1808 – January 7, 1871) was a major American arms maker from Massachusetts. He is unrelated to the revolutionary Ethan Allen. His first firearm, the "Pocket rifle" was ...