Cleveland


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North America, Mid-West Inland Port, City Cleveland

City ( 2000 pop. 478,403), (cap.) Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a port of entry on L. Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga R.; 41º28'N 81º40'W. Ohio’s 2nd largest city and the center of the state’s largest metropolitan area, it is an ore port and a Great Lakes shipping point. Cleveland grew rapidly after the opening of the first sect. of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1827 and the arrival of the RR in 1851. Its central location midway bet. the coal and oil fields of Pennsylvania and (via the Great Lakes) the Minnesota iron mines spurred its industrialization; it was there that John D. Rockefeller began his oil dynasty.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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