Luxist Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: ohio land value calculator acres

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Company_of_Associates

    Many associates of the company held army bounty warrants, which they could exchange for federal land, totaling 142,900 acres (578 km 2). Later in 1792, the Ohio Company purchased another 214,285 acres (867.18 km 2) in Morgan, Hocking, Vinton and Athens counties, using these bounties, with the 1/3 discount for bad lands, as in the first purchase.

  3. Ohio Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Company

    The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans. The company had a land grant from Britain and a treaty with Indians, but France also claimed the ...

  4. Firelands - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firelands

    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 ...

  5. Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Ordinance_of_1785

    The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. Congress at the time did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation, so land sales provided an important revenue stream.

  6. Holden Arboretum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Arboretum

    Open year round. The Holden Arboretum, in Kirtland, Ohio, is one of the largest arboreta and botanical gardens in the United States, with more than 3,600 acres (1,500 ha), including 600 acres (240 ha) devoted to collections and gardens. Diverse natural areas and ecologically sensitive habitats make up the rest of the holdings.

  7. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System

    The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of ...

  1. Ads

    related to: ohio land value calculator acres