Cleveland's Lighthouses

Missionary-geographer John Heckewelder was prophetic in the 1790s when he mapped the place where the Cuyahoga River flows into Lake Erie. He wrote, Cujahaga will hereafter be a place of great importance. In 1796, surveyors arrived to plot a new town and named it after their superintendent, Moses Cleaveland. Soon Cleveland (the a was omitted on early maps) was a magnet for inventors and entrepreneurs. By 1829—1830, a lighthouse was necessary to support lake traffic spurred by shipbuilding, s...