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Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County,Ohio,United States. At the 2020 census,it had a population of 270,871,making Toledo the fourth-most populous city in the state of Ohio,after Columbus,Cleveland,and Cincinnati. Toledo is also the 79th-largest city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Toledo metropolitan area,which had 646,604 residents in 2020. Toledo also serves as a major trade center for the Midwest;its port is the fifth-busiest on the Great Lakes.
The Toledo War (1835–36),also known as the Michigan–Ohio War or the Ohio–Michigan War,was a boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan over what is now known as the Toledo Strip. Control of the mouth of the Maumee River and the inland shipping opportunities it represented,and the good farmland to the west were seen by both parties as valuable economic assets.
Maumee is a city in Lucas County,Ohio,United States. Located along the Maumee River,it is a suburb about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Toledo. The population was 13,896 at the 2020 census. Maumee was declared an All-America City by the National Civic League in June 2006.
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James Brown Ray was an Indiana politician and the only Indiana Senate president pro tempore to be elevated to governor of the state of Indiana. Ray served during a time when the state transitioned from personal politics to political parties,but never joined a party himself. Taking office one week before his 31st birthday,he became the state's youngest governor and served from 1825 to 1831,the longest period for an Indiana governor under the state constitution of 1816. During Ray's term as governor the state experienced a period of economic prosperity and a 45 percent population increase. He supported projects that encouraged the continued growth and development of the young state,most notably internal improvements,Native American removal,codification of Indiana's laws,improved county and local government,and expanded educational opportunities. Ray was known for his eccentricity and early promotion of a large-scale railroad system in the state. His support for new railroad construction and alleged involvement in several scandals caused him to lose popularity among voters. Ray's opponents who favored the creation of canals considered railroads to be an impractical,utopian idea. Following Ray's departure from political office,he continued to advocate for a statewide railroad system until his death in 1848.
The Miami and Erie Canal was a 274-mile (441 km) canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo,Ohio,creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. Construction on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1845 at a cost to the state government of $8,062,680.07. At its peak,it included 19 aqueducts,three guard locks,103 canal locks,multiple feeder canals,and a few man-made water reservoirs. The canal climbed 395 feet (120 m) above Lake Erie and 513 feet (156 m) above the Ohio River to reach a topographical peak called the Loramie Summit,which extended 19 miles (31 km) between New Bremen,Ohio to lock 1-S in Lockington,north of Piqua,Ohio. Boats up to 80 feet long were towed along the canal by mules,horses,or oxen walking on a prepared towpath along the bank,at a rate of four to five miles per hour.
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- ↑ "Lieutenant Governors Of The State Of Ohio: 1852 - Present". Ohio Secretary of State . Retrieved 2012-01-24.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Scribner, Harvey, ed. (1910). Memoirs of Lucas County and the city of Toledo: from the earliest ... Vol. 1. Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association. pp. 120–121.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Biographical notices of the members of the fifty-fifth General Assembly of the State of Ohio. Columbus: John Wallace. 1862. pp. 81–83.
