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Lake Tomahawk is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Middleton Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 494 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It was established in 1966 by the American Realty Service Corporation as a private planned community surrounding the man-made Lake Tomahawk reservoir.
Tomahawk rights, also called cabin rights or tomahawk claims, were an informal process that was used by early white settlers of the Appalachian and Old Northwest (Ohio, Michigan, etc) frontiers in the mid-to-late 18th century to establish priority of ownership to newly-occupied land.
Columbiana County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was 101,877. [2] The county seat is Lisbon and its largest city is Salem. [3]
Orchard Island is an unincorporated community and residential and tourist area located in Washington and Stokes townships, Logan County, Ohio, United States. [1] Although Orchard Island can only be accessed by road via Russells Point, most addresses on Orchard Island have a Lakeview ZIP Code (43331).
Early settlers found a group of small lakes and wetlands, occupying about 640 acres (2.6 km 2), and named them for the Indian tribes living in the region.The area was ideal for fishing and hunting, but in the 1850s it was converted into the 6,334-acre (25.63 km 2) "Lewistown Reservoir," in order to collect water for the Sidney Feeder to the Miami and Erie Canal, which extended from Toledo to ...
The Act of March 3, 1819 [7] established the Piqua Land District, with a Land Office in that town for sale of lands in this survey within 48 miles (77 km) of the state of Indiana. For lands in this survey more than 48 miles (77 km) from Indiana, a land office and land district were established at Delaware .
O'Connor's Landing was a family lakeside resort in Logan County, Ohio, United States, on the shores of Indian Lake. It was one of twenty-one hotels and cottage resorts listed in the 1911 travel atlas [1] for the area. Indian Lake is formed by two forks of the Great Miami River and it resided at the confluence of the north and south forks. For ...
The Land Ordinance of 1785 established a procedure for sale of government land in what is now Ohio.It read in part: And be it further ordained, That the towns of Gnadenhutten, Schoenbrun, and Salem, on the Muskingum, and so much of the lands adjoining to the said towns, with the buildings and improvements thereon, shall be reserved for the sole use of the Christian Indians, who were formerly ...