Editing Lakewood, Ohio (section)

===Establishment===
The area now called Lakewood was populated by the Ottawa, Potawatomi, Chippewa, Wyandot, Munsee, Delaware and Shawnee tribes until the Treaty of Ft. Industry pushed them west in 1805.<ref name="enc">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Miller |first=April |title=Lakewood |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/l/lakewood |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=[[Case Western Reserve University]] |access-date=May 7, 2020 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925075912/https://case.edu/ech/articles/l/lakewood |url-status=live }}</ref> Prior to the treaty, American settlers were prohibited from moving west of the [[Cuyahoga River]]. The treaty ceded 500,000 acres of some of the tribes' land to the United States for about $18,000 or 3.5 cents/acre. The Shawnee and Seneca, living with the Wyandot, were to get $1000 "...every year forever hereafter."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Erb |first1=Robin |title=1805 Fort Industry treaty entices Toledo historians |journal=The Blade |date=16 November 2003 |url=https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2003/11/16/1805-Fort-Industry-treaty-entices-Toledo-historians/stories/200311160035 |publisher=Block Communications |location=Toledo Ohio |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=April 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415011515/https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2003/11/16/1805-Fort-Industry-treaty-entices-Toledo-historians/stories/200311160035 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1806, the area was formally surveyed as [[Defunct townships of Cuyahoga County, Ohio#Rockport Township|Rockport Township]], Township 7, Range 14, of the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]]. It was purchased from the [[Connecticut Land Company]] by a syndicate of six men headed by [[Judson Canfield]] on April 4, 1807, for $26,084. In 1818, permanent settlement began with the arrival from [[Connecticut]] of James Nicholson.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Murray |first1=Lorraine |title=Lakewood Ohio US |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Lakewood-Ohio |website=Britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |location=Chicago IL |access-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-date=May 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519194229/https://www.britannica.com/place/Lakewood-Ohio |url-status=live }}</ref> Other early pioneers included Jared Kirtland and Mars Wagar. Settlements were mostly along Detroit Avenue, a toll road operated by the Rockport Plank Company from 1848 to 1901, with large farms and properties extending north to Lake Erie. Making bricks and planting orchards were among the most prolific occupations until natural gas and oil wells were developed in the early 1880s.<ref name="enc"/> By 1819, 18 families lived in Rockport Township. Early settlers sustained their lives through farming. The land was ideal for fruit farming and many vineyards began to emerge.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Becker |first=Thea Gallo |title=Lakewood |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2003 |isbn=073852333X |location=Charleston, SC |pages=Introduction, i; 12–13 |language=English}}</ref> Current street names reflect this history such as Orchard Grove and Blossom Park. The most common occupations in Lakewood were farming and the building trades.