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The Forest City is a nickname
List of city nicknames in the United States

This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the pseudonym, sobriquets and slogans that city are known by , officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce....
 or alternate toponym for Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
. The inspiration for the name is a famous reference to Cleveland, describing a highly sophisticated society amid a heavily forest
Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
ed environment in Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis-Charles-Henri Cl?rel de Tocqueville was a French political philosophy and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution ....
's Democracy in America
Democracy in America

De la d?mocratie en Am?rique is a Western canon France text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses....
, which contains the Frenchman's observations of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in the 1830s. Early use of the moniker is uncertain. Some say that Timothy Smead, editor of the short-lived Ohio City Argus first put the name to use.






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The Forest City is a nickname
List of city nicknames in the United States

This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the pseudonym, sobriquets and slogans that city are known by , officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce....
 or alternate toponym for Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
. The inspiration for the name is a famous reference to Cleveland, describing a highly sophisticated society amid a heavily forest
Forest

File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
ed environment in Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis-Charles-Henri Cl?rel de Tocqueville was a French political philosophy and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution ....
's Democracy in America
Democracy in America

De la d?mocratie en Am?rique is a Western canon France text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses....
, which contains the Frenchman's observations of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in the 1830s. Early use of the moniker is uncertain. Some say that Timothy Smead, editor of the short-lived Ohio City Argus first put the name to use. Many others believe that William Case
William Case

William Case was an United States of America politician of the United States Republican Party and served as the 12th List of Mayors of Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio from 1850 and 1851....
, secretary of the Cleveland Horticultural Society and Cleveland's mayor from 1850 to 1851, carried the name forward. Case was well known for encouraging the planting of fruit trees, and thus the name stuck.

In the late 1860s, the city's best baseball club adopted the name, chose professionalism in 1869 or 1870, and helped found the first professional league in 1871. The first National Association
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players , or simply the National Association , was founded in 1871 and lasted through the 1875 season....
 game was a visit by the Forest City club
Cleveland Forest Citys

The Forest Citys were a short lived professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1870s. The actual name of the team, as shown in standings, was Forest City, not "Cleveland"....
 of Cleveland at the Kekionga club
Fort Wayne Kekiongas

The Fort Wayne Kekiongas were a professional baseball team, notable for having won the first professional game of baseball ever played, on May 4, 1871....
 of Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne is a city in northeastern Indiana, United States and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana. As of July 1, 2008, the city had an estimated population of 251,247, making it the List of United States cities by population Fort Wayne is Indiana's second largest city after Indianapolis, Indiana....
, Indiana
Indiana

The State of Indiana was the 19th U.S. state admitted into the union. It is located in the Midwestern United States of the United States of America....
 on May 4, 1871. It is considered the first major league game by those who count the National Association as a major league. Complicating matters, there was a second Forest City club
Rockford Forest Citys

Rockford Forest Citys, from Rockford, Illinois was one of the first professional baseball clubs. Rockford played for one season during the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players inaugural year of 1871....
 in the NA in 1871, based in Rockford, Illinois
Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Rockford is often referred to as "The Forest City" and is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, United States....
, which is also called the Forest City.