Show old story disproved there la is an often repeated story credited to the historian harvey rice that moses Cleav elands exploring and surveying party started up the chagrin river mistaking it for the cuyahoga Cuya hoga and that upon discovering the error cleaveland gave it this name as representative of the state of his feelings it appears however that this story has little foundation tor for on maps made before the revolution the river was called the chagrin the name Is no doubt from an indian word given as or Sh aguin and said to mean clear one map issued in 1775 calls it the elk river Cleil tand plain dealer |