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  2. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    [36] [37] On April 7, 1788, Ebenezer Sproat and a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory, led by Rufus Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers to establish Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory. [38] [39] [40] Marietta was founded by New Englanders. [41]

  3. Ohio Lands - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Ohio Lands. The Ohio Lands were the several grants, tracts, districts and cessions which make up what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.The Ohio Country was one of the first settled parts of the Midwest, and indeed one of the first settled parts of the United States beyond the original Thirteen Colonies.

  4. List of North American settlements by year of foundation

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    Arrival of first settlers in Michigan's first inland settlement; recognized by the state legislature in 1837, and incorporated as a city in 1861. 1818: Medina: Ohio: United States: 1818: Columbia: Missouri: United States 1818 Jim Thorpe: Pennsylvania United States Formerly known as Mauch Chunk and burial place of Native American athlete Jim ...

  5. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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    1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.

  6. Prehistory of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Direct contact began in the late 1600s when traders, white explorers, and settlers came to Ohio. The native peoples from Ohio had not been subjected to, and had not immunity for European diseases, like small pox, which was devastating to the population of Native Americans. Children and the elderly were particularly affected.

  7. Marietta Earthworks - Wikipedia

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    The Marietta Earthworks is an archaeological site located at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in Washington County, Ohio, United States. Most of this Hopewellian complex of earthworks is now covered by the modern city of Marietta. Archaeologists have dated the ceremonial site's construction to approximately 100 BCE to 500 CE.

  8. Seven Ranges - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. Lowell, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The first European settlers to the land that would become Lowell arrived in the late 18th century after the 1787 Northwest Ordinance opened the territory for settlement. . Soon after the Ordinance took effect, the Ohio Company of Associates purchased 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of land along the Muskingum River and proceeded to survey the a