Cleveland County

Cleveland County is the name of several counties in the United States:

  • Cleveland County, Arkansas, named for Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth president of the United States
  • Cleveland County, North Carolina, named for Benjamin Cleveland, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War
  • Cleveland County, Oklahoma, named for Grover Cleveland.

Famous quotes containing the words cleveland and/or county:

    “I am no Poet here; my pen ‘s the spout,
    Where the rain water of my eyes run out,
    In pity of that name, whose fate wee see
    Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography:
    The Muses are not Mer-maids, though upon
    His death the Ocean might turn Helicon”
    —John Cleveland (1613–1658)

    “But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)