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Yankees, especially in the "Western reserve" (near Cleveland), supported modernization, public education, and anti-slavery policies. The state supported the Union in the American Civil War, although antiwar Copperhead sentiment was strong in southern settlement areas. After the Civil War, Ohio developed as a major industrial state.
German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of the city's downtown.It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th century by a large number of German immigrants, who at one time comprised as much as a third of the city's entire population.
More tourists visit Berlin, permanent population 685, than any other town in Ohio Amish Country. [14]: 83 Berlin was the first town in Ohio to market the Amish to tourists. [14]: 83 Berlin's business district is large, with as of 2012 more than 40 shops, 10 hotels, and multiple restaurants large and small.
The Ohio Rhineland (German: Ohio Rheinland) is a German cultural region of Ohio. It was named by Rhinelanders and other Germans who settled the area in the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] They named the canal "the Rhine" in reference to the river Rhine in Germany , and the newly settled area north of the canal as " Over the Rhine ".
He and his men resumed their survey on August 5, and by September, 1786, they placed a stone completing the Geographer's Line at a place near Magnolia called the Seven Ranges Terminus Under protection from Indians by troops housed at the newly constructed Fort Steuben , the group completed four ranges, and forty two miles of the west side of ...
New Germany is mostly a neighborhood of Beavercreek, in Greene County, Ohio, United States, with small adjacent areas in unincorporated Beavercreek Township. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History
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Bremen was platted in 1834. [6] The village was named after Bremen, in Germany. [7]The Bremen Oil Field was discovered in 1907, setting off an oil boom, which lasted until the early 1920s.