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The Firelands, or Sufferers' Lands, tract was located at the western end of the Connecticut Western Reserve in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.It was legislatively established in 1792, as the "Sufferers' Lands", and later became named "Fire Lands" because the resale of the land was intended as financial restitution for residents of the Connecticut towns of Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich ...
The Yankee Migration to the Firelands. s.l.: Fedor, 1976? [CSL call number F 497 .W5 F43 1976]. Mathews, Alfred. Ohio and Her Western Reserve, With a Story of Three States Leading to the Latter, From Connecticut, by Way of Wyoming, Its Indian Wars and Massacre. New York: D. Appleton, 1902 [CSL call number F 491 .M42].
Firelands Area Council: Mansfield: Ohio: 1994: 1994: Heart of Ohio 450 458: Firelands Area Council: Vermilion: Ohio: 1925: 1994: Merged with Harding Area 443 and Johnny Appleseed 453 and Firelands Area 450: Heart of Ohio 450 First Middlesex Mass. Council: Waltham: Massachusetts: 1918: 1920: 223, 241 and 246 231: Fitchburg Area Council ...
www.stonington-ct.gov Stonington is a town located on Long Island Sound in New London County, Connecticut , United States. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington , the villages of Pawcatuck , Lords Point , and Wequetequock , and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic .
The Firelands Conference is an Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) athletic league located in north-central Ohio. The league was formed in the 1960–61 school year and is named for the Firelands area of the old Western Reserve , where most of the member schools reside. [ 1 ]
Union, CT: Active Archived May 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine: For a time the camp was leased to the Ct Burn Foundation as a summer camp for children with severe burns; however, it has since been changed back into a Scout camp. Camp Sequassen: Connecticut Yankee Council: New Hartford, CT: Active: Located at 791 West Hill Road in New Hartford ...
The Harriet Taylor Upton House was the residence of suffragette Harriet Taylor Upton and the headquarters of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association.. Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798, on 441 acres (1.78 km 2) of land that he purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve.
The Huron County Courthouse and Jail in downtown Norwalk. On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut, was burned by British Loyalists under Lieutenant-general William Tryon.In 1800, the U.S. federal government gave an area in the Connecticut Western Reserve as compensation; and in 1806, 13 men arrived to make the first survey of what would be called the Firelands.