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The second contract was an option to buy all the land between the Ohio and the Scioto rivers and the western boundary line of the Ohio Company's tract, extending north of the tenth survey township from the Ohio, this tract being preempted by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent for themselves and others for the Scioto Company. Cutler's original ...
While Barber claims in his own book a total of 102 structures [3] it is likely he included in his tally preexisting structures that had been incorporated into the farm during its expansion. The centerpiece of the farm was the 52 room Beaux Arts style mansion Barber constructed in 1909 to 1910. According to the Barberton Historical Society, it ...
[8] [9] Westward expansion, including the Louisiana Purchase and American victory in the War of 1812 plus the building of canals and the introduction of steamboats opened up new areas for agriculture. Most farming was designed to produce food for the family, and service small local markets.
The British war goal included the creation of an Indian barrier state under British auspices in the Midwest which would halt American expansion westward. American frontier militiamen under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Creeks and opened the Southwest, while militia under Governor William Henry Harrison defeated the Native-British alliance ...
The School Lands are part of the Ohio Lands, [18] comprising land grants in Ohio from the United States federal government for public schools. According to the Official Ohio Lands Book, [18] "by 1920, 73,155,075 acres of public land had been given by the federal government to the public land states in support of public schooling."
There were few operating newspapers in Ohio: including The Western Spy and Hamilton Gazette, which published in Cincinnati from 1799 to 1822 and the Freeman’s Journal and Chillicothe Advertiser ...
It was a weekly publication centered on farm and family life and provided sections for farming, housekeeping, and for children. [1] As proclaimed in its header, The Ohio Farmer was "devoted to the improvement and betterment of the farmer, his family, and farm." [2] The Ohio Farmer is part of the Farm Progress family of newspapers.
Marsh Self Binder, Red River Valley, D.T. 1877 [4]. Bonanza farmers pioneered the development of farm technology and economics. They used steam engines to power plowing as much as 4 decades before the modern farm tractor made its appearance - plows and combine harvesters drawn by steam tractors were used in the West in the 1880s and 1890s.