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The following is timeline of events surrounding the Toledo War, a mostly bloodless conflict between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory in 1835–36, over a 468-square-mile (1,210 km 2) disputed region along their common border, now known as the Toledo Strip after its major city.
The Toledo War (1835–1836), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War or Ohio–Michigan War, was a boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan over what is now known as the Toledo Strip.
The Lost Peninsula was created as a result of the Toledo War boundary dispute in 1835 and 1836 to determine whether the State of Ohio or the Michigan Territory would control an area known as the Toledo Strip. After the Toledo War, the state border was established at approximately the 41°44’ north latitude line just north of the mouth of the ...
The Toledo War came about when Michigan was preparing to apply for statehood. The dispute was over whether a 450-square-mile portion of land then known as the Toledo strip belonged to Ohio or ...
In the area of Ohio known as the Toledo Strip, the townships are numbered from the Michigan meridian and Michigan baseline because at the time they were surveyed, the area was considered to be a part of the Michigan Territory. A 10-mile-wide (16 km) strip of land was given to Indiana when it became a state in 1816. Since this land had not been ...
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...
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Pages in category "History of Toledo, Ohio" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Timeline of the Toledo Strip; 2005 Toledo riot;