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The Ohio Company Land Office is one of the original buildings of the city of Marietta, Ohio, United States. The Office is listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places and as a contributing property to the Marietta Historic District. The Land Office was built after Ohio Company of Associates landed at Marietta in 1788.
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 ...
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 ...
The Donation Tract was a land tract in southern Ohio that was established by the Congress in the late 18th century to buffer Ohio Company lands against local indigenous people. Congress gave 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) lots to men who settled on the land.
Federal Land Office (Steubenville, Ohio) Steubenville, Ohio: 1801 Government Established by Harrison Land Act of 1800 Ohio's Oldest Brick Building: Lisbon, Ohio: 1803 Commercial Often alleged to be Ohio's oldest brick building; built by Picking family, Edwin Stanton practiced law upstairs in building. [7] Betts House (Cincinnati, Ohio ...
The Ohio Country, showing present-day U.S. state boundaries. The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans.
That year, 14.9% of Ohio's foreign-held farmland belonged to Canadians and 14.6% to Germans. Nationwide in 2022, 32.1% of the total foreign-held farmland in the U.S. was owned by Canadian ...
Capt. Leavitt was a member of the Connecticut Land Company and along with his cousin Ebenezer King from Suffield, paid over $51,000 for approximately 78,500 acres (318 km 2) of Ohio land, which included the township of Warren. [1] The Leavitt family of Warren would go on to play a substantial role in the history of their adopted town and in Ohio.