The 20 acres of land off the first bend of the Cuyahoga River, and just south of Settler’s Landing, has seen a lot in the past two centuries. Up until the 1870s, it was Canal Basin, the major entry point for ships from the Erie Canal bound for the Ohio. (It was apparently where Alexis de Tocqueville took his first steps on U.S. soil.) By the mid-19th century it was a rail hub connecting Pennsylvania and Indianapolis.