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The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States.
The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio. It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth. It also had connections to other canal systems in Pennsylvania. The canal carried freight traffic from 1827 to ...
The first map of Ohio to show all the actual surveys within the inhabited part of the state. A rare and early large map of Ohio. County boundaries tinted in color. Townships clearly shown. An extensive key is included detailing land ownership history and some land use. Northwest portion of state not surveyed but shows swamplands and plains.
The second contract was an option to buy all the land between the Ohio and the Scioto rivers and the western boundary line of the Ohio Company's tract, extending north of the tenth survey township from the Ohio, this tract being preempted by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent for themselves and others for the Scioto Company. Cutler's original ...
The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2), and its neighbor, Lake County, is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591.1 ...
Northwest Territory. The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest[a] and formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was formed from unorganized western territory of the United States after the American Revolution. Established in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation through the Northwest Ordinance, it was the ...
Treaties after 1818 involved purchase or cession of reservations, and Indians were removed to out of state Indian Territory. [citation needed] The last Indians in Ohio were removed in 1843 via Treaty with the Wyandots (1842) by which the reservation at Upper Sandusky was ceded to the United States, and the Wyandots relocated to Oklahoma in 1843 ...
History of Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, was founded on the east bank of the Scioto River in 1812. The city was founded as the state's capital beside the town of Franklinton, since incorporated into Columbus. The city's growth was gradual, as early residents dealt with flooding and cholera epidemics, and the city had few ...