OHIO COMPANY 



OHIO RIVER 



been carved by streams or built up and dug 

 out by glaciers. 



The greatest percentage of increase in popu- 

 lation in Ohio was during the decade between 

 1800 and 1810, when the growth was over 400 

 per cent; the greatest actual growth, how- 

 ever, was between 1900 and 1910, when there 

 was an increase of 609,576. 



Consult Black's The Story of Ohio; Randall 

 aii.l Ryan's History of Ohio: The Rise and Prog- 

 ress of an American State. 



Related Subject*. The following: articles in 

 these volumes contain much that will be of inter- 

 rst in connection with a study of Ohio: 



CITIES 



Akron 



Alliance 



Ashtabula 



Barberton 



Bel la ire 



Bellefontaine 



Cambridge 



Canton 



Chilllcothe 



Cincinnati 



Cleveland 



Columbus 



Conneaut 



Coshocton 



Dayton 



Delaware 



East Liverpool 



Elyria 



Flndlay 



Fostoria 



Fremont 



Hamilton 



Ironton 



Lake wood 



Lancaster 



Lima 



Lorain 



Mansfield 



Marietta 



Marion 



Martin's Ferry 



Mass! lion 



Middletown 



Mount Vernon 



Newark 



New Philadelphia 



Norwood 



Plqua 



Portsmouth 



Salem 



Sandusky 



Springfield 



Steubenville 



Tiffin 



Toledo 



Warren 



Xenia 



Youngstown 



Zanesville 



HISTORY 

 Northwest Territory Ordinance of 178? 



Apple 



Coal 



Corn 



Clans 



Hay 



Lumber 



< 1:1 1 1 



Onion 



Ohio 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Petroleum 



Potato 



Pottery 



Salt 



Sheep 



Steel 



Rl 



Wheat 



Bdoto 



OHIO COMPANY, the name ^iven to two 



organiiationa which h.-ul as their purpose the 



ink' of colonies in the Ohio River vail. y. 



from 1749, included in its 



;p I.<m<l<>n merchants as well as 



wealthy Virginians, an m being Law- 



and Augustine Washington, brothers of 



George. It secured from George II a grant 



ui 500,000 acres, which lay south of the Ohio 

 River. Part of the land was sun-eyed, but 

 no actual colonization was attempted, and 

 later the members of the company either 

 dropped out or transferred their interest to the 

 Walpole Company, organized for a similar pur- 

 pose. 



The second of the two companies was the 

 more important; it was specifically known as 

 the Ohio Company of Associates, and was or- 

 ganized at Boston in 1786 by colonial ol! 

 and soldiers. General Rufus Putnam, Samuel 

 H. Parsons and Manasseh Cutler were its most 

 prominent members. The purchase of 5.000,- 

 000 acres of land along the north bank of tin- 

 Ohio River was authorized by Congress, but 

 the company actually purchased less than half 

 that area. Late in 1787 a band of colonists set 

 out from New England, and in April of the 

 following year Marietta, the first town within 

 the present state of Ohio, was founded. The 

 Ohio Company, and especially Manasseh Cut- 

 ler, were influential in deciding the contents 

 of the Ordinance of 1787 and in thus prohibit- 

 ing slavery in the Northwest Territory. See 

 NORTHWEST TERRITORY; ORDINANCE OF 1787. 



OHIO RIVER, one of the great rivers of the 

 United States, which pours its waters into 

 the Mississippi after traversing nearly 1,000 

 miles of the richest farming and industrial re- 

 gion of the country. The system of which it 

 is the center drains an area variously estimated 

 at from 202,400 to 214,000 square miles, and 

 .s such thriving cities as Pittsburgh, Wheel- 

 ing, Cincinnati, Evansville and Louisville. The 

 channel of the river separates the Northern 

 states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois from the 

 Southern states of Virginia and Kentucky. 



Originally the bed of the Ohio was so ob- 

 structed by snags and shallow bars that com- 

 merce was interrupted durinp the dry months. 

 The Federal government has now rendered the 

 stream navigable during most of the year by 

 removing the snags and introducing dikes and 

 wing dams. From its source, at the confliu 

 ence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela 

 at -Pittsburgh, to its mouth at Cairo, the Ohio 

 is the channel of a vast commerce, fed l-\ 

 such tributaries as the Miami, the Wabash. the 

 Big Sandy, the Tennessee, the Green and tin 

 Cumberland. In pioneer days it was the < 

 avenue of approach to the new lands of the 

 West, and was a most important factor in has- 

 teninu' the (i. velopmrnt of the whole rep: 

 It is still a competitor of the railroads in the 

 carrying of trade. 



