It was a wooded wilderness through which cut the old Huron Post Road that ran from Buffalo, New York, to Detroit, Michigan. Lakewood, the first suburb west of Cleveland on the shores of Lake Erie, began as Township 7, Range 14, of the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1805. This land in Ohio-an area now occupied by Lakewood, Rocky River, Fairview Park, and the section of Cleveland known as West Park-was purchased from the Connecticut Land Company by a syndicate of six men headed by Judson Canfield on April 4, 1807, for the sum of $26,084. The treaty was approximately $5,000, which included the cost of rum, tobacco, and presents, as well as the fees for commissioners, agents, and contractors. Subsequently in Detroit, Michigan, on January 18, 1796, twenty-nine leaders of the Ottawa, Chippewa, and other tribes signed another treaty that provided for the lease of the lands west of the Cuyahoga River for 999 years for the sum of five shillings per acre.īut it wasn’t until the treaty of July 4, 1805, that the lands actually opened and settlers permanently inhabited the territory. Consequently, when Moses Cleaveland arrived in 1796, his activities were confined to the east side of the river. The wilderness west of the Cuyahoga River was delayed being settled due to a treaty the federal government made with the Indians in 1785, whereby no white man was to settle on that land.
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