General Moses Cleveland, Founder of Cleveland, Ohio - Vintage Postcard

General Moses Cleaveland, Founder of Cleveland, Ohio 

Back Information: Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland , one of the stockholders and directors of the Connecticut Land Company, purchasers of 3,000,000 acres of the Connecticut Western Reserve, General Cleaveland was at the head of a party surveying this property. Writing home to his associates, he said that a village had been established on the banks of the Cuyahoga River and given his name, which he expected some day to see as large as Old Windham, Connecticut.

Good Condition
Time frame: 1920s
Unmailed
Hand colored
Publisher: Braun Post Card Co