from Euclid Creek Book Four Some Trees For the milestone celebration the Cleveland Sesquicentennial Commission established a Committee on Moses Cleaveland Trees The Committee sough nominations for trees that, based on current size and known growth rate (different for each species) were present when Cleaveland came to the mouth of the Cuyahoga The Committee, chaired by Arthur B. Williams of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, chose 150 trees from the 242 nominations, and after confirming, through measurement of the trunk at a height of 4 feet, they were indeed of the required age, marked them with a 5" x 10" aluminum plaque that read: "This is a Moses Cleaveland Tree It was standing here as part of the original forest when Moses Cleaveland landed at the Mouth of the Cuyahoga River, July 22, 17...