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  Toledo War
A war fought in 1835 between the State of Ohio and the Territory of Michigan over the city of Toledo.
The Toledo Strip was at the time covered with dense cedar swamps (collectively known as the "Black Swamp"), which today have almost all been drained off for farm land; the two armies got lost for weeks and never found each other in the swamps.
Congress settled the issue by awarding Toledo to Ohio and giving Michigan the western two-thirds of the upper peninsula (the eastern portion was already part of the Territory).
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 Toledo Spain -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Toledo served as the capital city of Visigothic Spain, beginning with Leovigild, and was the capital until the Moors conquered Iberia in the 8th century.
Cervantes described Toledo as a "rocky gravity, glory of Spain, and light of her cities." The old city is located on a mountaintop, surrounded on three sides by a bend in the Tagus River, and contains many historical sights, including the Alcázar, the cathedral (the primate church of Spain), and the Zocodover, a central marketplace.
Toledo is a city in Lucas County on the northern border of Ohio and the western end of Lake Erie.
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 Toledo: History - French, British Settle Maumee Valley, Border Dispute Precedes Industrial Growth
The "Toledo War" of 1835-36 between Ohio and Michigan over their common boundary did not involve bloodshed but it did result in federal intervention to resolve the dispute.
Toledo in the mid-nineteenth century benefitted from the opening of new canals, the establishment of businesses along the river bank to accommodate trade and new shipping industries, and the arrival of the railroad.
Toledo today boasts amenities and points of interest including the University of Toledo, the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo, a symphony, ballet and opera company, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Toledo Zoo, and the Anthony Wayne suspension bridge (1931).
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 Toledo, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Toledo is also an industrial and commercial center, with large oil refineries, a glassmaking industry, shipyards, and plants that manufacture jeeps, automobile parts, machinery, scales, and chemicals.
In 1835–36 occurred the “Toledo War,” an Ohio–Michigan boundary dispute, which was settled by Congress in favor of Ohio when Michigan became a state.
Steps in the development of the city included the opening of the canals in the 1840s, the arrival of numerous railroad lines, the development of the Ohio coal fields, the tapping of gas and oil deposits in the late 19th cent., and the establishment of the Libbey glassworks in 1888.
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 Toledo War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Toledo War (1835–1836; also known as the Ohio-Michigan War) was the largely bloodless outcome of a boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining territory of Michigan.
Delayed due to the War of 1812, it was only after Indiana's admission to the Union in 1816 that work on the survey commenced.
The Strip west of the Toledo area is a prime location for agriculture, due to its well-drained, fertile loam soil.
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 The Toledo War | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
During the war of 1812, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh took fort Detroit for the British closing a front in the war which had been invaded the year before.
Toledo- the punishment for not being smart enough to pretend to be old enough to drink in Michigan.
Toledo- Thank you for being there, and for winning the war, otherwise I would have had to have driven even further for that first Miller's High Life, the champagne of bottled beers.
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 The Toledo War: Murdoc Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It turns out that a 1787 survey misplaced the southern tip of Lake Michigan, and the city of Toledo was within a 468 square-mile strip of territory running from the Indiana border to Lake Erie.
Coincidentally, the surveyor general of the United States was a former governor of Ohio, and the surveyor he selected for the job was instructed to follow the Ohio line.
Toledo was the planned end for the Erie and Miami canals, and Ohio wasn't about to let the city go.
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 From Quackery to Bacteriology, Document 8
When the Civil War began in April 1861, medicine was approaching what Surgeon General William Hammond called "the end of the medical Middle Ages." In Europe, the work of Koch and Pasteur was just beginning and American physicians had little knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease and infection.
Early in the war it became obvious that disease would be the greatest killer.
At the beginning of the war, staffs were haphazardly organized on an "as needed" basis.
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 toledo war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Since the city of Toledo was not chartered until 1837 and since the fracas was not actually a war, the term "Toledo War" is a misnomer.
The crucial issue of this "war", so far as Ohio was concerned, was whether the mouth of the Maumee River (then called the Miamis of the Lake) should be in Ohio or Michigan.
While Toledo was conveniently located on the water, we still had Detroit, which was and continues to be the center of industry here in Michigan.
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 Toledo War of 1835, Toledo Strip, Fulton Survey Line
The Toledo War of 1835, also known as the Battle of Phillips Crossing and the Ohio-Michigan Boundary War, (or the Michigan-Ohio War if you are from Michigan) was a historical dispute over the boundary line between Michigan and Ohio.
Historically described, as a "comic-opera," the Toledo War was even the premise of a local musical comedy presented by the Theatrical Organization of Metropolitan Toledo, called "The War of Toledo" in conjunction with Ohio's 2003 Bicentennial celebrations.
The Toledo Strip was 486 square mile area bounded on the north by the current Ohio-Michigan boundary, established by the Harris Survey, on the south by the Fulton Survey, and on the west by a 5 mile section along the current Ohio-Indiana Boundary.
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 Nutt Family Genealogy Page - The Toledo War of 1835   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The principal contenders for this strip of land, known as the Toledo Strip, were Governors Robert Lucas of Ohio and Stevens T. Mason of Michigan.
The inglorious outcome for Michigan was the loss of Toledo, its harbor, and the surrounding area of 468 square miles.
The Michigan Territory was forced into capitulation of the border dispute, not by the Toledo War, but by the politicians.
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 A Century of Toledo Scale
With the tendency to locate new war plants in unlikely and remote corn fields, the full nation-wide coverage of Toledo service and sales put the company in an unusual position to offer assistance when it was needed most, and to be ready promptly for installation and maintenance.
Toledo men in the field did an outstanding job in serving scale users in this trying period, and this tribute applies equally to Toledo distributors overseas who, under severe handicaps, carried on to serve their customers.
Whether a Toledo is purchased through a company branch, or through a distributor-office, or in the case of a Toledo Sterling Kitchen Machine, through a franchised dealer, there is assur ance that Toledo factory-trained service is close at hand.
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 University of Toledo
Until 1967, the University of Toledo was a municipal university and received a significant portion of its budget from the city. This situation placed significant burdens on both Toledo and the university.
As a result, the state legislature voted, on July 1, 1967, to make the University of Toledo a state university.  Students were involved in a number of protests in the late 1960s and early 1970s, related to the war in Vietnam and reactions to campus violence at other institutions, but their efforts remained peaceful.
The University of Toledo has continued to grow in both numbers of students and the size of the campus in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Today, the institution enrolls more than twenty thousand students each year, and boasts of outstanding programs in pharmacy and engineering.
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 History - do toledo
One of the largest log forts in America, Fort Meigs was built in 1813 to protect northwest Ohio and Indiana from British Invasion during the War of 1812.
Toledo was one of the most important layovers for those slaves escaping to freedom.
Well-known for bringing the Libbey Glass Company to Toledo in 1888, Edward Drummond Libbey was also the first president of the Toledo Museum of Art.
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 Top20Toledo.com - Your Top20Guide to Toledo, OH.
Toledo was founded in 1833, when the neighboring, and competing towns of Port Lawrence and Vistula agreed to set aside their differences and unite to take advantage of a proposed canal to bypass rapids on the Maumee.
The only casualty of the Toledo War was Michigan sheriff Joseph Wood, who was stabbed in the thigh by Two Stickney, the youngest son of Major Stickney in the Ohio militia, as he, his father, and his older brother One Stickney were being taken to jail (see also Toledo Strip).
The Seagate Convention Centre is home to the Toledo Ice of the ABA Basketball League, who have their first season in Toledo starting in November, 2005.
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 Toledo Ohio Realtor specializing in Toledo Schools, Toledo homes, and Toledo subdivisions
Toledo is a vibrant and beautiful Midwestern city that combines the pleasures of suburban living with an exciting big-city atmosphere.
The city of Toledo is served by the Toledo Public School District.
Toledo was originally part of the state of Michigan.
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 Toledo Blade Newspaper -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The ''Toledo Blade'' is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, first published on December 19, 1835.
The Toledo Blades were the International Hockey League franchise of Toledo, Ohio from 1963 to 1970.
The storied franchise left Toledo after the 1985-86 season for Kansas City, where they again became the Blades.
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 History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ohio Press-Ohio in the War of the Rebellion-Governors-Glass and Iron Manufac-
Toledo's Canals-The Miami and Erie and the Wabash and Erie 444
The work of the historian in the present case, was made specially embarrassing and arduous by the fact, that he was virtually a pioneer in the field, and as such was compelled to seek chiefly in original sources material requisite for his purpose.
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 Toledo During World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Toledo During World War II The War Effort -- "...because of your production on that day, the defeat of Japan has been brought closer..." - May 11, 1945 - Letter from the War Department to "the Men and Women of Acklin Stamping Company"
In June of 1940, nearly a year before the United States entered the war, the Toledo Board of Education began to emphasize vocational programs for high school students in an effort to ensure that Toledo plants would receive defense contracts.
Their efforts (and Toledo's already present industrial base) paid off when, during the summer of 1940, Toledo industries began to receive defense contracts.
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 Toledo - Area Highlights - AOL City Guide
As a result, Toledo (which is at the mouth of the Maumee River on Lake Erie) went to Ohio, and the northern peninsula became part of Michigan.
Toledo Mud Hens play in the Class AAA International League and are affiliated with the American League's Detroit Tigers.
Toledo Sports Arena & Exhibit Hall is the place for hockey and other sports and cultural events.
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 Discuss Detroit: The Real Shooting War for Toledo between MI and OH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was a "war" that both Ohio and Michigan could rightfully claim they won, a one-casualty conflict in which the only blood drawn came from a knife thrust into the leg of a Michigan sheriff.
It was the Toledo War, a hotly contentious boundary dispute when it began in April, 1835, but now a source of amusement to many whose only knowledge of the war is from flawed accounts of the event.
One apsect of the Toledo War settlement is that the northern end of the Point Place Peninsula is connected only to Ohio, is still part of Michigan.
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 Travel in in Toledo - Ohio -USA-History-WorldTravelGate.net®-
Fort Industry was located at the mouth of Swan Creek (what is now downtown Toledo), settled after the War of 1812.
Ohio's decision to include the Toledo area (then part of the Michigan Territory) in the state's canal system resulted in a fierce boundary dispute (the Toledo War of 1835) between Ohio and Michigan.
Today, Toledo is one of America's fifty largest cities and an integral part of the Midwestern economy.
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 History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio History
It was at the commencement of the late War (1812), when the troops destined for the defense of Detroit, had passed through the forests from Urbana to the Rapids of the Maumee.
Mulholland became prominent during the Toledo War," from the fact that it often was made the stopping place of the Michigan officials and Military.
Rowe was made familiar with the stirring events of the " Toledo War," and, with other residents on the line between the headquarters of the two parties (Toledo and Monroe), shared in the intense alarm and anxiety which for about six months prevailed.
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 Blogging Ohio
In 1835, Ohio fought a boundary war with Michigan: the Toledo War.
A 468-square mile strip alongside the Maumee River near Toledo was included in Michigan's boundaries when it applied for statehood, and Ohio said "No way!" Both states' governors raised and mobilized militias, and neither militia did anything more than occasionally fire bullets into the air.
The only injury of the war was a non-fatal stabbing of a Michigan sheriff who was involved in the arrest of an Ohio family.
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 The Toledo War of 1835
Barely a footnote in most U.S. history books, the Toledo War of 1835 was brief and had no fatalities, but it meant a great deal to the two states involved.
Jackson, who was entrenched in the election of 1836, sided for the state of Ohio and its electoral votes, awarding it the Toledo Strip.
In exchange for giving up the land, Michigan was granted its statehood and awarded the western three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula (north of Lake Michigan), which didn't turn out to be such a bad deal considering that the 9,000-square-mile acquisition would turn out to hold some of the country's most valuable copper, timber and iron.
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