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    The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly...
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  • which it was built, the Connecticut Western Reserve, as it was the first of its kind in Northern Ohio. The settlers from Connecticut wanted to build a school...
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    encourage settlement in the eastern parts of the newly chartered Connecticut Western Reserve of the former "Ohio Country" and a prized-part of the Northwest...
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    called the Connecticut Western Reserve. The Western Reserve section was settled largely by people from Connecticut, and they brought Connecticut place names...
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    Firelands (category Western Reserve, Ohio)
    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...
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  • The Connecticut National Estuarine Research Reserve is one of 30 reserves established as part of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. It was...
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  • science. Western Reserve College, the college of the Connecticut Western Reserve, was founded in 1826 in Hudson, Ohio, as the Western Reserve College and...
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    Streetsboro Township of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Long before settlers moved into the Connecticut Western Reserve, Seneca Indians traversed the...
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    Moses Cleaveland (category Continental Army officers from Connecticut)
    soldier, and surveyor from Connecticut who founded the city of Cleveland, Ohio, while surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796. During the American...
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    extraterritorial: Trumbull County, the Connecticut Western Reserve, ceded to Ohio in 1800 Westmoreland County, Connecticut around Wilkes-Barre, ceded to Pennsylvania...
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    east of Akron. Formed from portions of Ravenna Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve, Ravenna was founded in 1799 and is named after the city of Ravenna...
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  • Western Reserve may refer to: The Connecticut Western Reserve, now northeastern Ohio, U.S. Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio, founded 1826 Western...
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    Northeast Ohio includes most of the area known historically as the Connecticut Western Reserve. Different sources define the region as having various boundaries...
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    from, the former township of Aurora, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve. Aurora was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor...
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    portions of Hiram, Nelson, Freedom, and Windham townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Colonel John Garrett III purchased 300 acres (120 ha) of land...
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    to military veterans: the Virginia Military District and the Connecticut Western Reserve Thomas Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1784 was the first organization...
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    formed from part of Hubbard Township, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve. The population was 7,636 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb...
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    as were other townships of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Austintown was named for Warren resident and Western Reserve judge Calvin Austin. In 1794,...
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    was owned by Caleb Strong, as part of his holdings through the Connecticut Western Reserve, On September 11, 1810, a group of sixteen men met in Becket...
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    area. It was formed from portions of Mantua Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve. The first settlers came to Mantua Township in 1798. The area...
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    Tryon. In 1800, the U.S. federal government gave an area in the Connecticut Western Reserve as compensation; and in 1806, 13 men arrived to make the first...
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    (the United States Military District, the Firelands and the Connecticut Western Reserve) were surveyed into townships of 5 miles (8.0 km) on each side...
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    Principal Meridian South and East of the First Principal Meridian Connecticut Western Reserve Dohrman Tract Ephraim Kimberly Grant Firelands or Sufferers'...
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  • future. The name Ohio Western Reserve refers part of the Northwest Territory, formerly known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, a tract of land in northeastern...
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    "Metropolis of the Western Reserve" – A historical nickname for Cleveland, referring to the historical Connecticut Western Reserve. "The Mistake on the...
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    in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve in modern-day Northeast Ohio by General Moses Cleaveland, after...
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    Warren, Ohio (category Western Reserve, Ohio)
    78 km2) of land that he purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Quinby named the town for the town's surveyor...
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    bought a 160-acre farm in the village of Coitsville, Ohio, of the Connecticut Western Reserve, near and east of Youngstown. McGuffey sat on the local school...
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    municipalities are located in Rootstown Township. Formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve, Rootstown Township covers an area of 26.4 sq mi (68 km2). It...
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    municipalities are located in Shalersville Township. Formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve, Shalersville Township covers an area of 28 sq mi (73 km2). 1960—2...
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