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Congress Lands in Ohio. The Congress Lands was a group of land tracts in Ohio that made land available for sale to members of the general public through land offices in various cities, and through the United States General Land Office. It consisted of three groups of surveys: [1] Ohio River Base Congress Lands East of Scioto River
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 ...
In 1787 the Ohio Company of Associates contracted to buy 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of land in southern Ohio for one million dollars.They ended up only being able to raise $500,000, and so were sold a tract of 750,000 acres (3,000 km 2), plus lands set aside for support of local schools, a college, and the clergy, for a total tract size of 913,833 acres (3,698.15 km 2) at the confluence of ...
Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and intended citizens government land to live on and cultivate. Although the ...
The Firelands, or Sufferers' Lands, tract was located at the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.It was legislatively established in 1792, as the "Sufferers' Lands", and later became named "Fire Lands" because the resale of the land was intended as financial restitution for residents of the Connecticut towns of Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich ...
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 .
In the spirit of settling the wild, wild West, some communities are giving away free land lots.What's the catch? You have to agree to build a house (or park a mobile home) and live in it. For the ...
Many associates of the company held army bounty warrants, which they could exchange for federal land, totaling 142,900 acres (578 km 2). Later in 1792, the Ohio Company purchased another 214,285 acres (867.18 km 2) in Morgan, Hocking, Vinton and Athens counties, using these bounties, with the 1/3 discount for bad lands, as in the first purchase ...