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The Congress Lands East of Scioto River was a land tract in southern Ohio that was established by the Congress late in the 18th century. It is located south of the United States Military District and Refugee Tract , west of the Old Seven Ranges , east of the Virginia Military District and north of the Ohio River , French Grant , and the Ohio ...
1805 Cary map of the Great Lakes and Western Territory (Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, etc.) Integration of the Northwest Territory into a political unit, and settlement, depended on three factors: relinquishment by the British, extinguishment of states' claims west of the Appalachians, and usurpation or purchase of lands from the Native Americans.
But around 1750, with the colonial population growing fast, the pressure to move westward onto new land set the stage for conflict with the Indians. Land agents from the East began appearing in the Ohio River valley, on the territory of a confederation of tribes called the Covenant Chain, for which the Iroquois were spokesmen.
Ohio River Troy Township and Skillman: 1966 Matthew E. Welsh Bridge: ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates)
This is a list of locks and dams of the Ohio River, which begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, in Cairo, Illinois. A map and diagram of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operated locks and dams on the Ohio River.
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 civil townships of Lawrence Township, Stark County, Ohio and Franklin Township, Summit County, Ohio correspond to this survey.
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.
Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, an organized incorporated territory of the United States in the Great Lakes region between 1787 and 1803; Ohio Country, a vaguely defined colonial/frontier region, roughly covering the lands between the upper Ohio River and the Illinois Country (prior to 1787) loosely, the Ohio River Valley in colonial times