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On October 27, 1787, the Treasury Board under Secretary William Duer finalized the Ohio Company's purchase. Their first contract was for the Ohio Company to purchase 1,500,000 acres (6,000 km²) of land at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, from a point near the site of present-day Marietta, to a point nearly opposite present-day ...
Transportation on the Ohio River also assisted in the city's growth. Crops were sent to one of Ohio's major markets, New Orleans, along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Transportation costs were reduced for shipping crops or goods from western Ohio to Cincinnati due to the Miami and Erie Canal. Steamboats were repaired and built in the city.
The first group of these early settlers is sometimes referred to as "the forty-eight" or the "first forty-eight", and also as the "founders of Ohio". [1] [2] These first 48 men were carefully chosen and vetted by several of the co-founders of the Ohio Company of Associates, Rufus Putnam and Manasseh Cutler, to ensure men of high character and ...
First city in the U.S. to hold a municipal song festival, named Saengerfest; Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio relocates to Cincinnati. [16] Carthage Road Cemetery founded. 1850 Cincinnati Volksfreund begins publication. First city in the U.S. where a Jewish hospital was founded ; Population: 115,435. [5]
Buckeye Women: The History of Ohio's Daughters (2001) Buley, R. Carlyle. The Old Northwest (1950), Pulitzer Prize winner; Booraem V. Hendrick. The Road to Respectability: James A. Garfield and His World, 1844–1852 Bucknell University Press (1988) Carr, Carolyn Kinder, ed. (1980). Ohio: A Photographic Portrait, 1935-1941. Akron, OH: Akron Art ...
These new insurance contracts allowed insurance to be separated from investment, a separation of roles that first proved useful in marine insurance. The first printed book on insurance was the legal treatise On Insurance and Merchants' Bets by Pedro de Santarém (Santerna), written in 1488 and published in 1552. [36] [37]
Monfort Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, part of the Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.The population of Monfort Heights was 12,070 at the 2020 census.
Exterior view of the Betts House located on 416 Clark Street Cincinnati, OH. In 1795, the home's original owners, William and Phebe Betts, left their home in Rahway, New Jersey to pursue opportunities in the west. The first leg of their journey ended in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, where the Bettses lived for