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In 2006, Donna Schwartzbauer spent $15,000 on what she thought was a nice plot of land in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh.She decided to build a house on it and make it her ...
However, his reputation was by then such that émigrés would purchase title to undeveloped land, vest it in him, and leave the management entirely to his judgement. He became closely involved with the Ceres Company, which through him purchased 297,428 acres of land in and around modern McKean, Potter, and Clearfield Counties. He was for many ...
Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,551 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1839, the last land in Western New York was sold off to local investors and settlers, and the Batavia office was closed. [2] Land sales in Pennsylvania were concluded in 1849, [7] and in 1856, the Philadelphia headquarters closed. [2] The company was formally dissolved in 1858. The town of Holland, New York was named after the company. [29]
The Erie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of land that was the subject of several competing colonial-era claims.It was eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government and sold to Pennsylvania so that the state would have access to a freshwater port on Lake Erie.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. Congress at the time did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation, so land sales provided an important revenue stream.