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Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair, six years before Ohio was granted statehood. Its boundaries were originally quite large, including all of northeastern Ohio east of the Cuyahoga River, but it was divided and redrawn several times before assuming its present-day boundaries in 1833, after the formation of neighboring Carroll County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1] There are 25 properties and districts listed on the ...
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
English: This is a locator map showing Jefferson County in Ohio. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: ... File history. Click on ...
Prior to the American Revolution, Britain exercised nominal sovereignty over Ohio Country due to garrisoning of the former French forts weakly. [17] Just beyond Ohio Country was the great Miami capital of Kekionga which became the center of British trade and influence in Ohio Country and throughout the future Northwest Territory.
Located in the southwestern part of the county, it borders the following townships: Wayne Township - north; Wells Township - northeast; Warren Township - southeast; Mount Pleasant Township - south; Short Creek Township, Harrison County - southwest; Green Township, Harrison County - northwest; Several populated places are located in Smithfield ...
An 1846 engraving of downtown Steubenville, with the Jefferson County Courthouse visible on the right. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River, [10] and named the fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
Hancock County, West Virginia, lies across the Ohio River to the east. Three incorporated municipalities are located along the Ohio River in eastern Knox Township: Part of the village of Stratton, upstream; The village of Empire, in the middle; Part of the city of Toronto, downstream