"This is a very gentle river and but few ripples or swift running places from the mouth to the forks. Deer were here tolerably plenty, large and fat, but bear and other game were scarce. . . A little above the forks, on the east branch of Cuyahoga, are considerable rapids, very rocky for some distance, but no perpendicular falls."

By clearing out the channel in some places, and lifting the boats over in others, they finally succeeded in getting their boats about three-fourths of a mile above the mouth of the little Cuyahoga. There they established a camp, or what was called "Upper Head Quarters". . . . This was the 15th of June, 1797. . . . Mr. Atwater erected a storehouse, or bark shanty, for the accommodation of himself; and which also answered for a hospital.

"The big falls of the Cuyahoga, in the vicinity of the "Old Maid's Kitchen", was the site of a large village of Delawares under Chief Netawatwees. One historical writer says that the land on the south side of the river was a large field of corn and vegetables, one of the largest in the country. The area of northern North Akron was always a plateau without trees."

Upon their arrival at the river after a hard journey, they lived for awhile in the large rock shelter, now known as Mary Campbell Cave, prior to moving to Netawatwees village at a site near the cave. Mary Campbell was the first white child to live in what was to become the Western Reserve so far as is known.

A six minute automobile ride clinched a big real estate deal and gave an impetus to the development of industrial sites at Bettes Corners, East Tallmadge Avenue, that brought ten enterprises into this rapidly growing manufacturing center with railroad frontage six minutes from the heart of the city. John J. Breen, grandson of John McCausland, and Elihu Harpham began Breen and Harpham Real Estate in 1908 and their company put this district on the industrial map. Mr. Breen was born at the original McCausland home at 613 East Tallmadge Avenue when the entire section was virgin countryside. The building of the North Hill bridge brought Bettes Corners within six minutes of Main and Mill streets.