Cleveland Island (Massachusetts)

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Cleveland Island is a small heavily forested island located in Wakeby Pond in Mashpee, Massachusetts. [1] It once belonged to president Grover Cleveland. [2] Cleveland once said that Daniel Webster caught a trout near the island, and then "talked mighty strong and fine to that fish and told him what a mistake he had made, and that he would have been all right if he had left the bait alone. [2]

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  1. ↑ "Cleveland Island". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved March 16, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Green, Eugene; Sachse, William; McCaulley, Brian (2006). The Names of Cape Cod. Arcadia Press. p. 69. ISBN   978-1-933212-84-5.

41°40′20″N70°28′55″W / 41.67222°N 70.48194°W / 41.67222; -70.48194



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