The Congress Lands was a group of land tracts in Ohio that made land available for sale to members of the general public through land offices in various...

Lands Canal Lands Miami & Erie Canal Lands Ohio & Erie Canal Lands College Township Congress Lands or Congressional Lands (1798–1821) Congress Lands North...

lands. The western border of Pennsylvania, previously assumed to run in a north by northeast zigzag, was resolved in 1780 by the Continental Congress...

passed repeated resolutions and requests asking Congress to take up the matter. In 1812, Congress approved a request for an official survey of the line...

William E. (1918). Ohio Lands and Their Subdivision. W.E. Peters. p. 153. 7 Stat. 49 - Text of Treaty of Greenville Library of Congress 7 Stat. 87 - Text of...

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...

woodsman and surveyor, to explore the Ohio Valley in order to identify lands for potential settlement. He surveyed and estimated the area drained by...

by Judge John Cleves Symmes of New Jersey in 1788 from the Continental Congress. In the 1780s, Benjamin Stites, a friend of Symmes, was visiting Limestone...

domain for a college. They chose a township in the first range in the Congress Lands, namely R1E T5. The village of College Corner takes its name from its...

uproar that Congress was forced to act and on May 27, 1880, passed legislation limiting the rights of the college to unappropriated lands. Some provisions...