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Canton is an incorporated town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. [1] The population was 11,638 at the time of the 2020 census. The town contains two villages: one also named Canton, the other named Rensselaer Falls. The town is named after the great port of Canton (now named Guangzhou) in China. [2]
The Ohio Country (Ohio Territory, [a] Ohio Valley [b]) was a name used for a loosely defined region of colonial North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Lake Erie. Control of the territory and the region's fur trade was disputed in the 17th century by the Iroquois, Huron, Algonquin, other Native American tribes, and France .
Columnist Charita Goshay writes that the Canton Inn wasn't just a place to stay; it was an unlikely mission field.
Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 544pp; Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent State University Press, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 0-87338-791-0; Murdock, Eugene C. and Jeffrey Darbee. Ohio: The Buckeye State, An Illustrated History (2007). popular; Roseboom, Eugene H.; Weisenburger, Francis P. A History of Ohio ...
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When the last occupant, son Henry, died in 2022, his sister Marie Justice sold the house at 607 14th St. SE to Habitat For Humanity East Central Ohio, which is making a multi-year investment in ...
The Harrington Hotel in Canton, New York overlooked the Grasse River until it was demolished in 1959. The first attempt at settlement was made in 1800, but the first permanent settlement occurred in 1801. The first post office used the name "New Cairo," but changed to Canton by 1807. The early economy was based on farming and lumbering.
Map of the Ohio Country between 1775 and 1794, depicting locations of battles and massacres surrounding the area that would eventually become Ohio The area including modern-day Columbus once comprised the Ohio Country , [ 2 ] under the nominal control of the French colonial empire through the Viceroyalty of New France from 1663 until 1763.