Named for: General Moses Cleaveland, Surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company Lorenzo Carter The Forest City

Progress and Prosperity

1796 Village: 1814 1836 United States Cuyahoga Ohio

oo 81 40'11”W 41 28'56”N (square miles): 77.9 653 feet

City of Cleveland (2009 est): 431,369Cleveland-Akron-Elyria CSA (July 2007 est): 2,896,968

Eastern Standard Time (Summer DST) 216

Avg. High Avg. Low Avg Lake Erie oo o January 33 F 19 F 34 Foo o o July 81 F 62 F 71 F (August. 74 F)

Average Annual: 38.7” Major - Lake Erie, Cuyahoga River

Other - Rocky River, Big Creek, Doan Brook, Euclid Creek, Mill Creek

Key Tower 948 feet Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Burke Lakefront Airport

The Plain Dealer ( )

Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Keycorp, National City Corporation, Metrohealth System, Case Western Reserve University, Sherwin-Williams Company, Continental Airlines

* Free home delivery of mail: 1863 * Electric streetcar operation: 1884 * Automatically operating wind turbine for electric generation: 1888

* Padded bicycle seat: 1892

* Successful coronary bypass operation: 1967 * NFL “Monday Night Football” game: 1970 * Artificial human chromosomes: 1997

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http://www.city.cleveland.oh.ushttp://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/

Cleveland Firsts

* X-ray photo: 1896 * Successful blood transfusion: 1905* Electric traffic signal: 1914 * Municipal airport: 1927 * Rock 'n Roll concert: 1952

* African-American mayor (major U.S. city): 1967

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