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  2. Seven Ranges - Wikipedia

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    The first north-south line, Eastern Ohio Meridian, was to be the western boundary of Pennsylvania, sometimes called Ellicott's Line [3] after Andrew Ellicott, who had been in charge of surveying it, and the first east-west line (called the Geographer's Line or Base Line) was to begin where the Pennsylvania boundary touched the north bank of the ...

  3. Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey - Wikipedia

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    It is near the three-way intersection of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the northern tip of West Virginia, in both the Pittsburgh metropolitan area and the East Liverpool micropolitan area. It is inscribed "1,112 feet south of this spot was the point of beginning for surveying the Public Lands of the United States."

  4. State cessions - Wikipedia

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    Its southern border forms part of the Mason–Dixon line. Pennsylvania claimed the portion of land along Lake Erie commonly known as the Erie Triangle; after Massachusetts and Connecticut ceded their claims to it, the Erie Triangle was sold to Pennsylvania by the federal government in 1792. Rhode Island: No land claim farther west.

  5. State censuses in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, the censuses from 1905 to 1925 asked for relationships of people to each other but also only asked for a country of birth. [15] Also, the 1925 New York state census asked for the date and place of naturalization for naturalized U.S. citizens. [15] North Carolina: 1786⊗ [1] [2] North Dakota: 1885, 1915, and 1925. [1] Ohio: None ...

  6. Line of Property - Wikipedia

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    The line would presumably follow Pleasant Stream upstream from Lycoming Creek at Marsh Hill, Pennsylvania to the watershed divide near Wheelerville in Sullivan County and then down Schrader Creek; this is the route later taken by the Susquehanna and New York Railroad and is the easiest and most direct footpath between the two branches of the ...

  7. List of former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia

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    In 1609, the northern border was reduced to 45 degrees north latitude on the Atlantic coast, very close to the current coastal border between the U.S. and Canada. In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the coast of present-day North Carolina, and they returned with word of a regional native chief

  8. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Settlement of Ohio was chiefly by migrants from New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Southerners settled along the southern part of the territory, arriving by travel along the Ohio River from the Upper South. Yankees, especially in the "Western reserve" (near Cleveland), supported modernization, public education, and anti-slavery policies.

  9. 1885 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina: James L. Robinson (until January 21), Charles M. Stedman (starting January 21) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio: John George Warwick ; Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania: Chauncey Forward Black