STOP! You Are Entering The Firelands Traditional Cache
STOP! You Are Entering The Firelands
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Another history related cache, this time, very early American. A quick park and grab.
"The Firelands" is a region in northern Ohio set aside by the state of Connecticut for “Sufferers” burned out of their homes by the British during the American Revolution. The area consisted of nearly all of the present-day Huron and Erie counties, as well as Danbury Township (Marblehead Peninsula) and much of Catawba Island Township now in Ottawa County; and Ruggles Township now in Ashland County. Almost none of the original "Sufferers" ever settled in the Firelands, because land speculators purchased all of the original claims for re-sale. On April 15, 1803, the new proprietors formed a corporation to manage the lands to which they were entitled in the newly formed state of Ohio. A drawing was held to determine which land each individual share-holder would receive. The lands were physically surveyed from 1806-1808, and very slowly settled after 1808. No villages had developed within the 'Fire Lands' until about the end of the War of 1812.
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