The Ohio Gazetteer: Or, Topographical Dictionary, Describing the Several Countries, Towns, Villages, Canals, Roads, Rivers, Lakes, Springs, Mines & C., in the State of OhioJ. Kilbourn, 1831 - 336 halaman |
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Halaman 13
... , is bloody , from the circumstance of numerous bloody battles having been fought between many tribes . along its banks , in centuries past . Another definition , B 1 is also given , to wit : that it is GENERAL DESCRIPTION ...
... , is bloody , from the circumstance of numerous bloody battles having been fought between many tribes . along its banks , in centuries past . Another definition , B 1 is also given , to wit : that it is GENERAL DESCRIPTION ...
Halaman 35
... banks sloping seven feet in ris- ing four feet . The locks are all built of hewn stone , 90 feet long , and 14 feet wide in the clear . The Grand Canal commences at Cleaveland , on lake Erie , and extends southwardly up the Cuyahoga ...
... banks sloping seven feet in ris- ing four feet . The locks are all built of hewn stone , 90 feet long , and 14 feet wide in the clear . The Grand Canal commences at Cleaveland , on lake Erie , and extends southwardly up the Cuyahoga ...
Halaman 40
... bank of the Scioto river , about 60 miles in a direct line from its mouth , and on the little Miami river . There are no fortifications , or not any of much notoriety , at any of these places , except at Granville , at Circleville ...
... bank of the Scioto river , about 60 miles in a direct line from its mouth , and on the little Miami river . There are no fortifications , or not any of much notoriety , at any of these places , except at Granville , at Circleville ...
Halaman 47
... , generally so large and rocky , as properly to be termed mountains ; notwithstanding they are almost infinitely numerous . But immediately upon the banks ous tracts of interval or meadow land of most exuberant Its ...
... , generally so large and rocky , as properly to be termed mountains ; notwithstanding they are almost infinitely numerous . But immediately upon the banks ous tracts of interval or meadow land of most exuberant Its ...
Halaman 64
... bank of the Scioto river , opposite Chillicothe . They were granted by Congress , to one Ebenezer Zane , in May 1796 , on condition that he should open a road through them , from Wheeling , in Virginia , to Maysville , in Kentucky ...
... bank of the Scioto river , opposite Chillicothe . They were granted by Congress , to one Ebenezer Zane , in May 1796 , on condition that he should open a road through them , from Wheeling , in Virginia , to Maysville , in Kentucky ...
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12 miles 20 miles acres Ashtabula county bank Belmont county called canal Chillicothe Cincinnati Clermont county Clinton Colum Columbiana county contains corner Coshocton coun creek Cuyahoga Delaware Distance east from Columbus east to west eastern Fairfield flourishing post Harrison Huron county Indian inhabitants Jackson Jefferson laid lake Erie land Logan county lumbus Madison Marion Meigs miles east miles easterly miles north miles northeast miles northerly miles south miles southwest miles square mill stream Monroe mouth Muskingum river north to south northeast from Columbus northeast of Columbus northern northwardly northwest Ohio river organized Perry Pickaway Population post office post town post township post village Richland county road running Sandusky saw mills Scioto river seat of justice small post town southeast southeastern southern southwest from Columbus square miles Stark county taverns thence town and seat tract Trumbull county Tuscarawas county Union Warren Washington waters western borders Zanesville
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Halaman 71 - ... for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...
Halaman 43 - ... the external wall alone. From this circumstance, among others, the earth composing the inner wall, is supposed to have been transported from a distance. " Another particular, corroborating this supposition, is there being a level foot way, of about four feet wide, left on the original surface of the ground, between the interior bourn of the ditch, and the exterior base of the inner wall.
Halaman 56 - ... the first ranges of public lands ever surveyed by ' the general government west of the Ohio river. They are bounded on the north by a line drawn due west from the Pennsylvania State line, where it crosses the Ohio river, to the...
Halaman 60 - Virginia Military Lands are a body of land lying between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers, and bounded upon the Ohio river on the south. The State of Virginia, from the indefinite and vague terms of expression in its original colonial charter of territory from James I., king of England, in the year 1609, claimed all the continent west of the Ohio rivpr, and of the north and south breadth of Virginia.
Halaman 63 - XX ranges of military or army lands north, and XXII ranges of congress lands south. In the western borders of this tract is situated the town of Columbus. French grant, a tract of 24,000 acres of land, bordering upon the Ohio river, in the southeastern quarter of Scioto county.
Halaman 58 - Military Lands are so called from the circumstance of their having been appropriated, by an act of congress of the 1st of June, 1796, to satisfy certain claims of the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war.
Halaman 43 - Although this circumstance is far from being conclusive on the subject, yet the following fact almost infallibly proves this conjecture to be well founded. This is, that the interior wall is composed of clay, of which the inhabitants manufacture brick; whereas the exterior circle is composed of dirt and gravel of a similar quality with that which composes the neighboring ground. There is but one original regular opening or passage, intfl the circular fort ; and that is in the east side from the square...
Halaman 58 - Pennsylvania colonies ; and, indeed, pretensions to these were not finally relinquished without considerable altercation. And after the United States became an independent nation, these interfering claims occasioned much collision of sentiment between them and the state of Connecticut, which was finally compromised, by the United States relinquishing all their claims upon, and guaranteeing to Connecticut the exclusive right of soil to the 3,800,000 acres now described.
Halaman 63 - XXII ranges of congress lands south. In the western borders of this tract is situated the town of Columbus. French grant, a tract of 24,000 acres of land, bordering upon the Ohio river, in the southeastern quarter of Scioto county. It was granted by congress, in March, 1795, to a number of French families, who lost their lands at Gallipolis, by invalid titles. Twelve hundred acres, additional, were afterwards granted, adjoining the above mentioned tract at its lower end, toward the mouth of Little...
Halaman 57 - Pennsylvania east, the parallel of the 41st degree of north latitude south, and Sandusky and Seneca counties on the west. It extends 120 miles from east to west, and upon an average 50 from north to south : although, upon the Pennsylvania line, it is 68 miles broad, from north to south. The area is about 3,800,000 acres. It is surveyed into townships of five miles square each. A body of half a million acres is, however, stricken ofT...