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1X17toy)ililtoichonun,fre-nreimcoir-cn-nd-ihc50,)rn-pi.-r—or-cCnthislieRtlerEOJi*St MarysIq looking through afilo of the Piqua Gazette for 1821, a day or two sine, wo met with au ^dvcniaemetit for the sale of lots in St. Marys. From this wo 1 earn that the original proprietors of that town were Charles Murray, Win. A. Houston and John McCorJde. The proprietors set out iu their advertisement,(as usual in such eases) the many ad vantages the new town will possess. Among other tilings they say: This town being at the head of navigation to the Lake, must fftcr be Urn great place of deposit for all the surplus produce of the Western part of the State of Ohio,and Indiana-1*This prediction, it is evident now, can never be verified* St Maty* bids fair tobea good town. It is probably fully as Jarg* now as its proprietors expected to see it. IBut while it has been doing well other towns in the vicinity have been doing cvenboiter, and ihe advantagesjt was at that Lime simposed St. Marys would enjoy exclusively, by being at the “head of navigation from the lake, Hiave been shared by all the other towhs between Dayton and tbo Lake, by the construction of the Miami Canal.—Piqua Reg-
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Fort Wayne Times
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 27, 1851
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