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In return for ceding its claims in 1784, Virginia was granted this area to provide military bounty land grants. The Ohio district was a surplus reserve, in that military land grants were first made in an area southeast of the Ohio River, in what is now Kentucky. The Ohio land was to be used only after the land southeast of the river was exhausted.
The Congress had little money to pay the soldiers who fought for independence. They made promises of land to induce army enlistment. By resolutions of September 16 and 18, 1776, and August 12, September 22, and October 3, 1780, they proposed to give each officer or private continuously to serve in the United States army until the close of the war, or until discharged, or to the representatives ...
The Congress Lands East of Scioto River was a land tract in southern Ohio that was established by the Congress late in the 18th century. It is located south of the United States Military District and Refugee Tract , west of the Old Seven Ranges , east of the Virginia Military District and north of the Ohio River , French Grant , and the Ohio ...
[2] [3] The claimants land was selected by drawing lots. An act of April 29, 1816 [7] authorized the United States General Land Office in Chillicothe to sell the unclaimed 45,477 acres (184.04 km 2) as Congress Lands. Several men who missed the deadline for claiming land were compensated with land in other parts of the country in the 1820s and ...
The former Franklin County Veterans Memorial in 2005. The current museum occupies the same location. The site along the west side of the Scioto River near the Discovery Bridge on Broad Street was originally home to the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, [3] which originally opened in 1955 [4] and was demolished to make way for the museum in early 2015, [5] by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. [6]
Central New York's Military Tract townships. Map from the original by Simeon De Witt. The Military Tract of Central New York, also called the New Military Tract, [1] consisted of nearly two million acres (8,100 km 2) of bounty land set aside in Central New York to compensate New York's soldiers after their participation in the Revolutionary War.
The land, once primarily industrial, houses the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, the COSI science museum, the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Station, a police station, the Lower Scioto Greenway, and the parks Genoa Park, Dorrian Green, and the Memorial Grove. All other spaces are used for parking or are vacant lots awaiting redevelopment.
The land on which present-day Upper Arlington sits was first known to be inhabited by the Adena people, renowned for building conical mounds for burial sites.Centuries later the Wyandot lived there, eventually being expelled after the U.S. Government gave land grants to Revolutionary War soldiers in lieu of pay.