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2. Ohio Company of Associates - Wikipedia

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   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. Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Ohio Company - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. List of protected areas of Ohio - Wikipedia

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   Fernwood State Forest - 2,107 acres (9 km 2) Gifford State Forest - 320 acres (1.3 km 2 ); Athens County. Harrison State Forest - 1,345 acres (5 km 2) Hocking State Forest - 9,374 acres (38 km 2) Maumee State Forest - 3,068 acres (12 km 2) Mohican-Memorial State Forest - 4,192 acres (17 km 2 ); Ashland County.

6. Property tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Median household income and taxes. Most local governments in the United States impose a property tax, also known as a millage rate, as a principal source of revenue. [1] This tax may be imposed on real estate or personal property. The tax is nearly always computed as the fair market value of the property, multiplied by an assessment ratio ...

7. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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   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 ...