Cuyahoga

The Cuyahoga River curves south and then north to enter Lake Erie. Near the great bend, an overland carrying path about eight miles long connects it to the Tuscarawas watershed, opening a route between the Great Lakes and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Indigenous travellers used this portage to cross the divide between two extensive river systems.

In 1795 the Treaty of Greenville made the Cuyahoga part of the boundary between the United States and Indigenous territory. The following year a survey party founded Cleveland at the river's mouth on Lake Erie. In 1805 the Treaty of Fort Industry moved the boundary farther west. The Ohio and Erie Canal later followed the portage route, opening between the upper river and Cleveland in 1827.

The later city of Cleveland lies here.