This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Buckeye State History Highlights and Early Ohio Founding
A compact history tracing Ohio’s settlement from colonial land grants through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to statehood in 1803. It covers Virginia and Connecticut claims, the Ohio Company and Marietta, Native battles, the Treaty of Greenville, pioneering centers like Cincinnati and Cleveland, the National Road, railroads, and the origin of the nickname Buckeye State with Col. Ebenezer Sproat and the log cabin campaign. It notes leaders like Washington, Harrison, Grant, and Taft, and details Connecticut’s Western Reserve and the Gore land.
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American
Atlantic
Panama
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
New World
Pacific
South Sea
Jamestown Company
Vhus
Virgina
Ohio
Indiana
Hllinois
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsstyvamnas
United States
Anthony’ Wayne
Kallen Timbers
Maumee Riiver
Greenville
Marietta
Symmes
New Jersey
Losantiville
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Edward Tiffin
Western Reserve
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Ohio Company
Gallipolis
Gnadenhutten
Europe
Northwest Territory
Mississippi River
Great Plains
West
Willam Henry Harrison
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
McKinley
Taft
Sherman
Sheridan
Stanton
Chase
John Sherman
Wade
Dennison
Tod
Brough
Jay Cooke
Saratoga
Yorktown
Congress
General Assembly of
Cumberland
Maryland
Potomac
Ohio River
Wheeling
Belmont
Columbus
St Louis
Toledo
Adrian
Michigan
Sandusky and
Dayton
Sandusky
Bellevue
Buckeye
Ebenezer Sproat
Gen
Harrison
Ohin
Col. Sproat
New Connecticut
Huron
Erie
Samuel H. Parson
Salt Springs
Mahoning River
Land Company
Yorain County
Columbia
Bronsons
Black River
Ridgeville
Eaton
Amherst
Avon
Carlisle
Sheffield
Elyria
Brownhelm
Grafton
C. B. Ingersoll
Henrietta
Ztuntington
Wellington
Penfield
Brighton
Pittsfield
Lua Grange
Rochester
Camden
Washington