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Lawyer-Soldier Moses Cleaveland, a square-chinned Yaleman (class of 1777), and his associates in the Connecticut Land Company thought they had a good speculation. For $1,200,000 (mostly in notes) they bought about three million acres of post-Revolutionary Connecticut's Western Reserve lands, away out in the wilderness. Thanks to that Yankee gamble, the nation's sixth largest city celebrates its 150th anniversary next week.
On July 22, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his band of a dozen nosed their little craft into a winding stream and decided that there, where a river met the...
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