Show Founded Cleveland Cleveland Ohio was founded in July 1796 by surveyors from Con Con- Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut who represented a land company which had bought a strip I of land along Lake Erie This land had been claimed by Connecticut by right of its old British h charter but it had relinquished rule over it to the federal government and had sold the land to the Connecticut Land company The company in turn resold farms and town lots to people in Connecticut New York and elsewhere and these settled in inthe inthe the th city and the region around round it |