The city of Cleveland was named for land surveyor Moses Cleaveland. In the 1830s, the “a” in Cleaveland was dropped because it fit better on a newspaper masthead.- From Mental Floss
Fun in Surveying
Winter in Maine
After surveying property along the New Hampshire and Maine border, some engineers decided the boundaries needed to be changed. So they stopped to tell a farmer that he was no longer in Maine but in New Hampshire. “Good,” said the farmer. “I couldn’t take another one of those Maine winters.”- From Readers Digest
