Why Euclid? Where does a Greek mathematician figure in?
[ANSWER]The original surveyors of this area were on a 2-year contract but having served the first year under unexpectedly harsh conditions (swamps, malaria, dysentery, etc.) they threatened to renege on returning for the second year. Moses Cleaveland, who was in charge of the men, then offered them a bargain price to purchase land in a township The chosen township bordered Lake Erie where the lake shoreline ran directly northeast, adding a gore of nearly 11 square miles to the normal 25 square mile township size chosen hereabouts.[Elsewhere 36 sq. mi. townships were the norm]. The surveyors named it after the founder of geometry: Euclid.
