Historical Sketches and Early Reminiscences of Hamilton County, Ohio
Historical Sketches and Early Reminiscences of Hamilton County, Ohio

Author: J. G. Olden

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781230056388

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...Thomas Hutchins, the geographer. The district surveyed extended one hundred and twenty miles west of the. Pennsylvania line, and from the 41st parallel to Lake Erie. Mr. Hutchins adopted a system of surveys by meridians and parallels, dividing into ranges, towns, and sections. Each township being six miles square, and subdivided into thirtysix sections, of one mile square, or six hundred and forty acres. This plan has ever since been in use by the government in surveying the public lands. It was used in all the surveys made in Ohio, except in the United States millitary district, in the Connecticut reserve, and in the Virginia military district. The political subdivision of the Miami purchase began in 1790. On the 2d day of January of that year, governor St. Clair arrived at Cincinnati, I or then Losantiville, and soon afterwards organized the county of Hamilton. Judge Symmes, in a letter to Jonathan Dayton, one of the proprietors of the Miami purchase, dated January 9, 1790, says of that event: "Governor St. Clair arrived at Losantiville on the 2d instant. He could be prevailed on to stay with us but three nights. He has organized this purchase into a.c0unty. His excellency complimented me with the honor of naming the county. I called it Hamiton County, after the Secretary of the Treasury, General Harmar has named the New Garrison Fort Washington. The governor has made Losantiville, the county town, by the name of Cincinnati. so that Losantiville will become extinct." Judge Burnet, in his Notes on the North Western Territory, relates a very romantic story as to the cause of Cincinnati becoming the emporium of Ohio: The New Jersey Company had intended that North Bend should be the great city of the Miami country. But this...

Historical Sketches and Eary Reminiscences of Hamilton County, Ohio
Historical Sketches and Eary Reminiscences of Hamilton County, Ohio

Author: J G Olden

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781020522451

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This book is a fascinating account of the history of Hamilton County Ohio, containing numerous sketches of important events and figures throughout the county's early years. Olden draws on his personal experiences and extensive research to provide a detailed picture of life in Hamilton County during this critical period in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Field of Corpses
Field of Corpses

Author: Alan D. Gaff

Publisher: Knox Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1637585055

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November 4, 1791, was a black day in American history. General Arthur St. Clair’s army had been ambushed by Native Americans in what is now western Ohio. In just three hours, St. Clair’s force sustained the greatest loss ever inflicted on the United States Army by Native Americans—a total nearly three times larger than what incurred in the more famous Custer fight of 1876. It was the greatest proportional loss by any American army in the nation’s history. By the time this fighting ended, over six hundred corpses littered an area of about three and one half football fields laid end to end. Still more bodies were strewn along the primitive road used by hundreds of survivors as they ran for their lives with Native Americans in hot pursuit. It was a disaster of cataclysmic proportions for George Washington’s first administration, which had been in office for only two years.

Bond Hill
Bond Hill

Author: Aharon Varady

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2005-11

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1411615948

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Full Color (CMYK) Edition.This is the reconstructed history of Bond Hill, currently a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, originally founded just after the Civil War as a railroad suburb on the urban fringe of the most densely populated city on the planet. How did teetotalers, cooperators, railroad moguls, real estate brokers, and radical socialists pool their energies to found a new society and build affordable housing for "men of moderate means"? How did church politics and other critical events shape the social and environmental transformation of a once rural community? This history provides a complete survey of the Bond Hill area, from the post-Colonial period through the Village of Bond Hill's annexation by the City of Cincinnati in 1903, up until the present day.