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This area consists of only two townships, within the Congress Lands North of the Old Seven Ranges and bounded on the north by the Connecticut Western Reserve. Townships are numbered 1 and 2 north, and the range is 10 west. The range continues the numbering of the Ohio River Survey. [10] This survey was conducted in 1800. [11]
The Seven Ranges (also known as the Old Seven Ranges) was a land tract in eastern Ohio that was the first tract to be surveyed in what became the Public Land Survey System. The tract is 42 miles (68 km) across the northern edge, 91 miles (146 km) on the western edge, with the south and east sides along the Ohio River .
The Ohio River Base consisted of the Congress Lands East of Scioto River, and Congress Lands North of Old Seven Ranges. These surveys had vertical rows of six mile square townships called Ranges . These ranges were numbered from Ellicott’s Line , the boundary between Ohio and Pennsylvania , also known as the Eastern Ohio Meridian .
The ranges and townships followed those of the original Seven Ranges, ranges being numbered westward from Pennsylvania, and townships within each range numbered from south to north starting at the Ohio River, known as the Ohio River Base, and some in ranges 22 and 23 from the Scioto River, the Scioto River Base Surveys, [6] thus having ...
Dioramic reconstruction of Fort Steuben by C.P. Filson 1787 drawing of Fort Steuben by Major Erkuries Beatty. Fort Steuben was a fortification erected in Feb. 1787 on the Ohio River in eastern Ohio Country at the northern end of the Seven Ranges land tract to be surveyed.
The 47-star flag in the photograph narrows the date range of the photo to 1896 to 1908. ... The photo of the Ohio Injector Co. worker unloading crates from a horse-drawn wagon appears to have been ...
The point now lies underwater on the state line between Ohio and Pennsylvania. Because it is submerged, a monument commemorating the point is adjacent to the nearest roadway and located on the state line between East Liverpool, Ohio and Ohioville, Pennsylvania. The area around the marker was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [2]
The Seven Ranges Terminus lies at the northwest corner of the tract in Ohio. The survey marker [5] lies at the corner of four townships, three counties, and three survey tracts: Rose Township, Carroll County, Ohio Township 16, Range 7 of Old Seven Ranges; Sandy Township, Stark County, Ohio Township 17, Range 7 of Congress Lands North of Old ...