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Source:
History
of
Athens County, Ohio
And Incidentally
of the Ohio Land Company
and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta
with personal and biographical sketches of the early
settlers, narratives of pioneer adventures, etc.
By
Charles M. Walker
"Forsam et hæc olim
meminisse juvabit." - Virgil.
Publ. Cincinnati:
Robert Clarke & Co.
1869.
CHAPTER IV.
From 1797 to 1805.
[Pg. 109]
THE first permanent settlement within the present
limits of Athens county was made in the early part of
the year 1797 (eight years before the organization of
the county), at the site of the present town of Athens.
At this time the state of Ohio was practically an
unknown region, and from the river to the lakes was
almost an unbroken wilderness. Cincinnati had been
laid out, on paper, a few years before, but was not
settled till 1789, and did not begin to be a growing
village till 1802. The sites of the cities of
Columbus, Cleveland, etc., had not been thought of.
The settlements on the Ohio Company's purchase and about
Cincinnati, in the Miami valley, comprised nearly the
whole population of the northwestern territory.
The treaty of Greenville, and the cessation of the
Indian war, removed the last obstacle to the peopling of
this extensive region. The active spirit of
emigration, restrained during the years of hostilities,
was now set[Pg. 110]
free, and the living column began its westward movement
with an impetus that was destined steadily to increase
till the whole vast area should be possessed and
populated. |
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