City Directory 1868 - Akron-Summit County Public Library

grouncl on nvhich wo stand mas decidcd by tho nrbitrnfion of
tllc sword anct tomahawl; ; and fifty gcnrs hnve not yct pnssoil
since the gronnrl on which the pi~blic nru localctl,
wore in tho nnilispnt.ec1 posscs~ion of tlie red lllcu of thc:
iorest.
"In July, 17'30, ono yoar nftor thc formation of thc C03necticut
La~ld Company, tlle first snrvcying party nrrivcd at
Cleveland ; and,in tho fall of that Scar the jirst pcrnisnei~t
settlement was nlfiite whero that city now st~ndj. In Scptonlbor
and Octobcr ol th ~t ycnr the city m lr 1:~id oat, a1111
1v.t~ a15merl in honor of Gau. Mo;os Clev~li~~ld, of Co~luoztioil t,
\oh0 W:LS ono of tllc csploring party. Cleveland was tllcrl on
the \veatern rergo of tilo Un~te,l St.~tc~, tho river only Goparntiug
il irom the Indian Isnd. But two families rcmaiuecl
tl~eru through tho wintcr of '90-97, and thcir noarcst ~i(liglibors
wcre at River Rnisin, the month of Big IJer~ver, n11il C~IIaeant.
Sickness :~nd other causes consp~rcd to retnrcl it.;
growth, nnd from Jannnry '99 to April 1800, n prsiotl of l(i
luontlrs, Lorewzo Carber, from IZntlancl, T'cruo~lt, w,ls tt~s
only inllabitant of that city.
" Tho spring of '99 was a notcd cm in tllc history of t!~!
Rcserrc. A grist mill mas orectcd at tho Falls in NL'\V~II.L-R!I.
in which the inhabitalits conld gct their corn gronutl, in5tcsc.l
of pounding it. This was tho first ~liill on the Iloxrvo.
"In lfay '99, Lewis Day, nnd others, nr1.i~c.d :it Dcs~field;
Portago County, in awitgon, nrllich, 80 f:~r A!; I G:111 !C:L~II
mns the iirst wagon evcr so far \vast ; and on tho 7th of Xovo~iibcr
of that year, Gen. John C:m1)b~?li msrrictl n tlnnqhtcr
of Mr. ICly, which I believe, mila tho f rest we\lding iu tllc
bounds of l'ortage County, mhich thn incloclc~i tili;. They I
wcrc rnarricd by Cdvin Austin Esq., of IYnrrcn, \vlio in co1t1.-
1mny with Calvin l'easc, t~fkrward Judge of our Suprsrnc
Court, camo tu tho weclcling on foot, there being no raails.
"Tho first perrnancnt scttlcmcnt nindo in this C:)unty,
~vns in 1800, by Dnvid I3uclson, at what is now caLloc1 linrlsor~
in honor of him. This, ycnr had ~~etirr)y proved fstnl to tllo
whites, tbrongh the inlprudcnco of two ucn, 3IcUnl1on and
Story, who lulled Capt. George and Spotted John, two Inclinlls
nt tlle salt works dn Tn~rnbul~ Coumty. lic?tIahon \vas tricd
nnd uccluittcd. Story fled. Ononrhgn G corge xsns present,
and insisted upon taking i~nmerliate rellgcsnce by a11 indiscriminate
slaughter of the n~hites before they had time to