Turnpike Lands were a group of land tracts granted by the United States Congress to the state of Ohio in 1827 along the path of a proposed road in the...
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Toledo Strip, object of a nearly bloodless war between Ohio and Michigan Turnpike Lands Twelve-Mile Square Reservation Two-Mile Square Reservation United States...
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Firelands (redirect from Sufferers' Lands)
The Firelands, or Sufferers' Lands, tract was located at the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio. It...
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King Charles II. Connecticut relinquished its claim to some of its western lands to the United States in 1786 following the American Revolutionary War and...
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Northwest Territory (section Native American lands)
1803 by the Louisiana Purchase. Lands north of the Great Lakes were part of the British Province of Upper Canada. Lands south of the Ohio River constituted...
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woodsman and surveyor, to explore the Ohio Valley in order to identify lands for potential settlement. He surveyed and estimated the area drained by...
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unrest in the United States List of Michigan county name etymologies Ohio Lands Timeline of the Toledo Strip "Northwest Ordinance". The Avalon Project....
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Purchase to protect the fledgling settlements. Ohio Company Purchase Ohio lands Land Ordinance of 1785 "Symmes Purchase". Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical...
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northern portion was constructed by the Columbus and Sandusky Turnpike Company, see Turnpike Lands. The portion from Cincinnati to Dayton primarily consists...
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Gallipolis residents who did not receive a portion of the First Grant. Ohio Lands Historic regions of the United States 1 Stat. 442 - Text of Act of March...
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