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Toledo War

The portion of the Michigan Territory claimed by the State of Ohio known as the

Toledo Strip

Date 1835–1836
Location Michigan Territory, primarily near Toledo,
Ohio
Result Inconclusive
Territorial Ohio gains control of the Toledo Strip,
changes Michigan gains the entire Upper Peninsula

Belligerents

Ohio militia Territory of Michigan militia

Commanders and leaders

Robert Lucas Stevens T. Mason

John Bell Joseph W. Brown

Strength

600 1,000

Casualties and losses


none 1 wounded

In exchange for ceding the Toledo Strip, all of what is now known as the Upper

Peninsula was included within Michigan's bounds when it was admitted into the

Union in 1837 (only the easternmost portion of the peninsula had been claimed in

Michigan's 1835 statehood petition).

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.

Poor geographical understanding of the Great Lakes helped produce conflicting state
and federal legislation between 1787 and 1805, and varying interpretations of the laws
led the governments of Ohio and Michigan to both claim jurisdiction over a 468-square-
mile (1,210 km2) region along their border. The situation came to a head when Michigan
petitioned for statehood in 1835 and sought to include the disputed territory within its
boundaries. Both sides passed legislation attempting to force the other side's
capitulation, and Ohio's Governor Robert Lucas and Michigan's 24-year-old "Boy
Governor" Stevens T. Mason helped institute criminal penalties for residents submitting
to the other's authority. Both states deployed militias on opposite sides of the Maumee
River near Toledo, but besides mutual taunting, there was little interaction between the
two forces. The single military confrontation of the "war" ended with a report of shots
being fired into the air, incurring no casualties. The only blood spilled was the non-fatal
stabbing of a law enforcement officer.

During the summer of 1836, the United States Congress proposed a compromise
whereby Michigan gave up its claim to the strip in exchange for its statehood and the
remaining three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula. The northern region's mineral wealth
later became an economic asset to Michigan, but at the time the compromise was
considered a poor deal for the new state, and voters in a statehood convention in
September soundly rejected it. But in December, facing a dire financial crisis and
pressure from Congress and President Andrew Jackson, the Michigan government
called another convention (called the "Frostbitten Convention"), which accepted the
compromise, resolving the Toledo War.

Origins[edit]
Map of the Northwest Territory as established by
the Congress of the Confederation in the Northwest Ordinance, shown with present-day
state borders, and correct spatial relationship between Lakes Michigan and Erie
In 1787, the Congress of the Confederation enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which
created the Northwest Territory in what is now the upper Midwestern United States. The
Ordinance specified that the territory was eventually to be divided into "not less than
three nor more than five" future states. One of the boundaries between them was to be
"an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake
Michigan".[1] When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to
begin the process of becoming a U.S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern
boundary elaborated on that, but was fundamentally the same: "an east and west line
drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall
intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line [with British North America, now Canada], and
thence with the same through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid".[2]

"Mitchell Map" of the region, from the late 18th century,


used to create the Ordinance Line of 1787. The southern tip of Lake Michigan is
depicted as being farther north than Lake Erie.
The most highly regarded map of the time, the "Mitchell Map",[3] showed the southerly
extreme of Lake Michigan at a latitude north of the mouth of the Detroit River,
suggesting that an east–west line would not intersect with Lake Erie at all, until well
across the international border. The framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution therefore
believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be
north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River. Ohio
would thus be granted access to most or all of the Lake Erie shoreline west of
Pennsylvania, and any other new states carved out of the Northwest Territory would
have access to only Lakes Michigan, Huron, or Superior.[4]

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The Northwest Ordinance

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Enabling act for Ohio 1802

However, the delegates allegedly received reports from a fur trapper that Lake Michigan
extended significantly farther south than had previously been believed (or mapped).
Thus, it was possible that an east–west line extending east from Lake Michigan's
southern tip might intersect Lake Erie somewhere southeast of Maumee Bay, or worse,
might not intersect the lake at all; the farther south that Lake Michigan actually
extended, the more land Ohio would lose, conceivably even the entire Lake Erie
shoreline west of Pennsylvania.[4]

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Ohio Constitution of 1802

Addressing this contingency, the Ohio delegates included a provision in the draft Ohio
constitution that if this report about Lake Michigan's position was correct, the state
boundary line would be angled slightly northeast so as to intersect Lake Erie at the
"most northerly cape of the Miami [Maumee] Bay". This provision would guarantee that
most of the Maumee River watershed and the southern shore of Lake Erie west of
Pennsylvania would fall in Ohio.[4] The draft constitution with this proviso was accepted
by the United States Congress, but before Ohio's admission to the Union in February
1803, the proposed constitution was referred to a Congressional committee. The
committee's report stated that the clause defining the northern boundary depended on
"a fact not yet ascertained" (the latitude of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan), and
the members "thought it unnecessary to take it [the provision], at the time, into
consideration."[5]

When Congress created the Michigan Territory in 1805, it used the Northwest
Ordinance's language to define the territory's southern boundary, disregarding that
provision in Ohio's state constitution. This difference, and its potential ramifications,
apparently went unnoticed at the time, but it established the legal basis for the conflict
that would erupt 30 years later.[4]

Creation of the Toledo Strip[edit]


Michigan Territory governor, Lewis Cass (1813–1831)
The location of the border was contested throughout the early 19th century. Residents
of the Port of Miami—which would later become Toledo—urged the Ohio government to
resolve the border issue. The Ohio legislature, in turn, passed repeated resolutions and
requests asking Congress to take up the matter. In 1812, Congress approved a request
for an official survey of the line.[6] Delayed because of the War of 1812, it was only
after Indiana's admission to the Union in 1816 that work on the survey commenced. At
that time, the border between Michigan and Indiana was altered from the Northwest
Ordinance boundary – over the protests of the Michigan Territory – moving it 10 miles
(16 km) northward to give the new state substantial frontage on Lake Michigan. [7]

U.S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin, who was in charge of the survey, was a former
Ohio governor, and employed William Harris to survey not the Ordinance Line, but the
line described in the Ohio Constitution of 1802. When completed, the "Harris Line"
placed the mouth of the Maumee River completely in Ohio, as intended by the drafters
of the state constitution.[8] When the results of the survey were made public, Michigan
territorial governor Lewis Cass objected, writing in a letter to Tiffin that the survey was
biased to favor Ohio and "is only adding strength to the strong, and making the weak
still weaker."[9]

Former Ohio Governor and U.S. Surveyor General Edward


Tiffin, who commissioned the Harris Line survey
In response, Michigan commissioned a second survey that was carried out by John A.
Fulton. The Fulton survey was based upon the original 1787 Ordinance Line, and after
measuring the line eastward from Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, it found the Ohio
boundary to lie just southeast of the mouth of the Maumee River.[10] The region between
the Harris and Fulton survey lines formed what is now known as the "Toledo Strip". This
ribbon of land between northern Ohio and southern Michigan spanned a region five to
eight miles (8 to 13 km) wide, over which both jurisdictions claimed sovereignty. While
Ohio refused to cede its claim, Michigan quietly occupied it for the next several years,
setting up local governments, building roads, and collecting taxes throughout the area. [9]

Economic significance[edit]
The Toledo Strip was and still is a commercially important area. Prior to the rise of
the railroad industry, rivers and canals were the major "highways of commerce" in the
American Midwest.[11] A small but important part of the Strip—the area around present-
day Toledo and Maumee Bay—fell within the Great Black Swamp, and this area was
nearly impossible to navigate by road, especially after spring and summer
rains.[12] Draining into Lake Erie, the Maumee River was not necessarily well-suited for
large ships, but it did provide an easy connection to Indiana's Fort Wayne.[11] At the time,
there were plans to connect the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes through a series
of canals. One such canal system approved by the Ohio legislature in 1825 was
the Miami and Erie Canal that included a connection to the Ohio River and an outflow
into Lake Erie via the Maumee River.[8]

During the conflict over the Toledo Strip, the Erie Canal was built, linking New York
City and the Eastern seaboard to the Great Lakes at Buffalo. The canal finished in
1825, and immediately became a major route for trade and migration. Corn and other
farm products (from the Midwest) could be shipped to eastern markets for much less
expense than the older route along the Mississippi River. In addition, the migration of
settlers to the Midwest increased sharply after the canal was finished, turning Buffalo
and other port cities into boomtowns.[13]

The success of the Erie Canal inspired many other canal projects. Because the western
end of Lake Erie offered the shortest overland route to the frontiers of Indiana
and Illinois, Maumee Harbor was seen as a site of immediate importance and great
value. Detroit was 20 miles (32 km) up the Detroit River from Lake Erie, and faced the
difficult barrier of the Great Black Swamp to the south. Because of this, Detroit was less
suited to new transportation projects such as canals, and later railroads, than was
Toledo. From this perspective on the rapidly developing Midwest of the 1820s and
1830s, both states had much to gain by controlling the land in the Toledo Strip. [13]

In addition, the Strip west of the Toledo area is good for agriculture, because of its well-
drained, fertile loam soil. The area had for many years produced large amounts
of corn and wheat per acre.[12] Michigan and Ohio both wanted what seemed
strategically and economically destined to become an important port and prosperous
farmland.[11]

Prelude to conflict[edit]
Ohio governor Robert Lucas (1832–1836)
In 1820–21, the federal land surveys had reached the disputed area from two directions,
progressing southward from a baseline in Michigan and northward from one in Ohio. For
unknown reasons, Surveyor General Tiffin ordered the two surveys to close on the
Northwest Ordinance (Fulton) line, rather than Harris' line, perhaps lending implicit
support to Michigan's claims over Ohio's.[14] Thus, townships that were established north
of the line assumed they were part of the Michigan Territory. By the early 1820s, the
growing Michigan Territory reached the minimum population threshold of 60,000 to
qualify for statehood. When it sought to hold a state constitutional convention in 1833,
Congress rejected the request because of the still-disputed Toledo Strip.[10]

Michigan Territory Governor Stevens T. Mason (1832–1839)


Ohio asserted that the boundary was firmly established in its constitution and thus
Michigan's citizens were simply intruders; the state government refused to negotiate the
issue with them. The Ohio Congressional delegation was active in blocking Michigan
from attaining statehood, lobbying other states to vote against it. In January 1835,
frustrated by the political stalemate, Michigan's territorial governor Stevens T.
Mason called for a constitutional convention to be held in May of that year, despite
Congress' refusal to approve an enabling act authorizing one.[15]

In February 1835, Ohio passed legislation that set up county governments in the Strip.
The county in which Toledo sat would, later in 1835, be named
after incumbent Governor Robert Lucas, a move that further exacerbated the growing
tensions with Michigan. Also, during this period, Ohio attempted to use its power in
Congress to revive a previously rejected boundary bill that would formally set the state
border to be the Harris Line.[16]

Michigan, led by the young and hot-headed Mason, responded with the passage of the
Pains and Penalties Act just six days after Lucas County was formed; the act made it a
criminal offense for Ohioans to carry out governmental actions in the Strip, under
penalty of a fine up to $1,000 (equivalent to $28,000 in 2022), up to five
years imprisonment at hard labor, or both.[17][18] Acting as commander-in-chief of the
territory, Mason appointed Brigadier General Joseph W. Brown of the Third U.S.
Brigade to head the state militia, with the instructions to be ready to act against Ohio
trespassers. Lucas obtained legislative approval for a militia of his own, and he soon
sent forces to the Strip area. The Toledo War had begun.[10]

Former United States President John Quincy Adams, who at the time
represented Massachusetts in Congress, backed Michigan's claim. In 1833, when
Congress rejected Michigan's request for a convention, Adams summed up his opinion
on the dispute: "Never in the course of my life have I known a controversy of which all
the right was so clearly on one side and all the power so overwhelmingly on the
other."[19]

War[edit]

U.S. President Andrew Jackson, who sided with Ohio in the


conflict and dismissed Mason as governor
Acting as commander-in-chief of Ohio's militia, Governor Lucas—along with
General John Bell and about 600 other fully armed militiamen—arrived in Perrysburg,
Ohio, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Toledo, on March 31, 1835.[20] Shortly thereafter,
Governor Mason and General Brown arrived to occupy the city of Toledo proper with
around 1,000 armed men, intending to prevent Ohio advances into the Toledo area as
well as stopping further border marking from taking place.[21]

Presidential intervention[edit]
In a desperate attempt to prevent armed battle and to avert the resulting political crisis,
U.S. President Andrew Jackson consulted his Attorney General, Benjamin Butler, for his
legal opinion on the border dispute. At the time, Ohio was a growing political power in
the Union, with 19 U.S. representatives and two senators. In contrast, Michigan, still a
territory, had only a single non-voting delegate. Ohio was a crucial swing state in
presidential elections, and it would have been devastating to the fledgling Democratic
Party to lose its electoral votes. Jackson calculated that his party's best interest would
be served by keeping the Toledo Strip as part of Ohio.[22] However, Butler held that until
Congress dictated otherwise, the land rightfully belonged to Michigan. This presented a
political dilemma for Jackson that spurred him to take action that would greatly influence
the outcome.[22]

Richard Rush of Pennsylvania, a representative of President


Jackson who helped to present a compromise to both governors
On April 3, 1835, Jackson sent two representatives from Washington, D.C. – Richard
Rush of Pennsylvania and Benjamin Chew Howard of Maryland – to Toledo to arbitrate
the conflict and present a compromise to both governments. The proposal, presented
on April 7, recommended that a re-survey to mark the Harris Line commence without
further interruption by Michigan, and that the residents of the affected region be allowed
to choose their own state or territorial governments until Congress could definitively
settle the matter.[23]

Lucas reluctantly agreed to the proposal and began to disband his militia, believing the
debate to be settled. Three days later, elections in the region were held under Ohio law.
Mason refused the deal and continued to prepare for possible armed conflict. [23][24]

During the elections, Ohio officials were harassed by Michigan authorities, and the area
residents were threatened with arrest if they submitted to Ohio's authority.[25] On April 8,
1835, the Monroe County, Michigan sheriff arrived at the home of Major Benjamin F.
Stickney, an Ohio partisan. In the first contact between Michigan partisans and the
Stickney family, the sheriff arrested two Ohioans under the Pains and Penalties Act on
the basis that the men had voted in the Ohio elections.[26]

Battle of Phillips Corners[edit]


A box labeled "Toledo, Mi" that may have been used by
the Michigan Militia during the Toledo War
After the election, Lucas believed that the commissioners' actions had alleviated the
situation and once again sent out surveyors to mark the Harris Line. The project
proceeded without serious incident until April 26, 1835, when the surveying group was
attacked by 50 to 60 members of General Brown's militia in the Battle of Phillips
Corners.[22][27] As the only site of armed conflict, the battle's name is sometimes used as
a synonym for the entire Toledo War.

Site of the Battle of Phillips Corners


Surveyors wrote to Lucas afterward that while observing "the blessings of the Sabbath",
Michigan militia forces advised them to retreat. In the ensuing chase, "nine of our men,
who did not leave the ground in time after being fired upon by the enemy, from thirty to
fifty shots, were taken prisoners and carried away into Tecumseh, Michigan."[28] While
the details of the attack are disputed—Michigan claimed it fired no shots, only
discharging a few musket rounds in the air as the Ohio group retreated—the battle
further infuriated both Ohioans and Michiganders and brought the two sides to the brink
of all-out war.[29][30]

Bloodshed in 1835[edit]
Ohioan Two Stickney, who caused the sole serious injury in the
Toledo War by stabbing a Michigan sheriff's deputy
In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a
special session of Ohio's legislature on June 8 to pass several more controversial acts,
including the establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the
establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible
abduction of Ohio citizens from the area, and a budget of $300,000 ($9 million in
2022[31]) to implement the legislation.[30] Michigan's territorial legislature responded with a
budget appropriation of $315,000 to fund its militia.[10]

In May and June, Michigan drafted a state constitution, with provisions for
a bicameral legislature, a supreme court, and other components of a functional state
government.[30][32] Congress was still not willing to allow Michigan's entry into the Union,
and Jackson vowed to reject Michigan's statehood until the border issue and "war" were
resolved.[33]

Lucas ordered his adjutant general, Samuel C. Andrews, to conduct a count of the
militia, and was told that 10,000 volunteers were ready to fight. That news became
exaggerated as it traveled north, and soon thereafter the Michigan territorial press dared
the Ohio "million" to enter the Strip as they "welcomed them to hospitable graves". [34]

In June 1835, Lucas dispatched a delegation consisting of U.S. Attorney Noah Haynes
Swayne, former Congressman William Allen, and David T. Disney to Washington D.C.
to confer with Jackson. The delegation presented Ohio's case and urged Jackson to
address the situation swiftly.[35][36]

Throughout mid-1835, both governments continued their practice of oneupmanship, and


constant skirmishes and arrests occurred. Citizens of Monroe County joined in a posse
to make arrests in Toledo. Partisans from Ohio, angered by the harassment, targeted
the offenders with criminal prosecutions.[37] Lawsuits were rampant and served as a
basis for retaliatory lawsuits from the opposite side.[37] Partisans of both sides organized
spying parties to keep track of the sheriffs of Wood County, Ohio, and Monroe County,
Michigan, who were entrusted with the security of the border.[37]

On July 15, Monroe County, Michigan, Deputy Sheriff Joseph Wood went into Toledo to
arrest Major Benjamin Stickney, but when Stickney and his family resisted, the whole
family was subdued and taken into custody.[37] During the scuffle, the major's son Two
Stickney stabbed Wood with a penknife and fled into Ohio. Wood's injuries were not life-
threatening.[29] When Lucas refused Mason's demand to extradite Two Stickney to
Michigan for trial, Mason wrote to Jackson for help, suggesting that the matter be
referred to the United States Supreme Court. At the time of the conflict it was not
established that the Supreme Court could resolve state boundary disputes, and Jackson
declined the request.[38] Looking for peace, Lucas began making his own efforts to end
the conflict, again through federal intervention via Ohio's congressional delegation.[36]

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Michigan Constitution of 1835

In August 1835, at the strong urging of Ohio's members of Congress, Jackson removed
Mason as Michigan's territorial governor and appointed John S. ("Little Jack") Horner in
his stead. Before his replacement arrived, Mason ordered 1,000 Michigan militiamen to
enter Toledo and prevent the symbolically important first session of the Ohio Court of
Common Pleas. While the idea was popular with Michigan residents, the effort failed:
the judges held a midnight court before quickly retreating south of the Maumee River,
where Ohio forces were positioned.[39]

Frostbitten Convention and the end of the Toledo War[edit]


Horner proved extremely unpopular as governor and his tenure was very short.
Residents disliked him so much they burned him in effigy and pelted him with
vegetables upon his entry into the territorial capital. In the October 1835 elections,
voters approved the draft constitution and re-elected Mason governor. The same
election saw Isaac E. Crary chosen as Michigan's first U.S. Representative to Congress.
Because of the dispute Congress refused to accept his credentials and seated him as a
non-voting delegate. The two U.S. Senators chosen by the state legislature in
November, Lucius Lyon and John Norvell, were treated with even less respect, being
allowed to sit only as spectators in the Senate gallery.[10]
Journal of the 1836 Michigan Territorial Convention, often called
the Frostbitten Convention
On June 15, 1836, Jackson signed a bill that allowed Michigan to become a state, but
only after it ceded the Toledo Strip. In exchange for this concession, Michigan would be
granted the western three-quarters of what is now known as the Upper Peninsula (the
easternmost portion had already been included in the state boundaries). [40] Because of
the perceived worthlessness of the Upper Peninsula's remote wilderness, which was ill-
suited for agriculture, a September 1836 special convention in Ann Arbor rejected the
offer.[41]

As the year wore on, Michigan found itself deep in financial crisis, nearly bankrupt
because of the high militia expenses. The government was spurred to action by the
realization that a $400,000 surplus ($11 million in 2022[31]) in the United States
Treasury was about to be distributed to the 25 states but not to territorial governments;
Michigan would have been ineligible to receive a share.[32]

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Congress offered the


region in red to the state of Michigan in exchange for the Toledo Strip, as a
compromise.
The "war" unofficially ended on December 14, 1836, at a second convention in Ann
Arbor. Delegates passed a resolution to accept Congress's terms. The calling of the
convention was itself controversial. It came about only because of an upswelling of
private summonses, petitions, and public meetings. Since the legislature did not
approve a call to convention, some said the convention was illegal. Whigs boycotted the
convention. As a consequence, the resolution was ridiculed by many Michigan
residents.[41] Congress questioned the convention's legality, but accepted its results.
Because of these factors, as well as a notable cold spell, the event became known as
the Frostbitten Convention.[41]

On January 26, 1837, Michigan was admitted to the Union as the 26th state, [42] without
the Toledo Strip but with the entire Upper Peninsula.[41]

Subsequent history[edit]
See also: Copper mining in Michigan
The Toledo strip became a permanent part of Ohio. The Upper Peninsula was
considered a worthless wilderness by almost all familiar with the area, valuable only for
timber and fur trapping.[43] However, the discovery of copper in the Keweenaw
Peninsula and iron in the Central Upper Peninsula in the 1840s led to a mining boom
that lasted long into the 20th century.[44] Michigan's loss of 1,100 square miles
(2,800 km2) of agricultural land and the port of Toledo was offset by the gain of 9,000
square miles (23,000 km2) of timber and ore-rich land.[26]

Differences of opinion about the exact boundary location continued until a definitive re-
survey was performed in 1915. Re-survey protocol ordinarily required the surveyors to
follow the Harris line exactly, but in this case, the surveyors deviated from it in places.
This was done to prevent certain residents near the border from being subject to
changes in state residence and land owners from having parcels in both states. The
1915 survey was delineated by 71 granite markers, 12 inches (30 cm) wide by 18
inches (46 cm) high. Upon completion, the two states' governors, Woodbridge N.
Ferris of Michigan and Frank B. Willis of Ohio, shook hands at the border.[8]

Traces of the original Ordinance Line can still be seen in northwestern Ohio and
northern Indiana. The northernmost boundaries of Ottawa and Wood counties follow it,
as well as many township boundaries in Fulton and Williams counties. Many old north–
south roads are offset as they cross the line, forcing traffic to jog east while traveling
north. The line is identified on United States Geological Survey topographical maps as
the "South [Boundary] Michigan Survey", and on Lucas County and Fulton County road
maps as "Old State Line Road".[45][46]

While the land border was firmly set in the early 20th century, the two states still
disagreed on the path of the border to the east, in Lake Erie.[47] In 1973, they finally
obtained a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on their competing claims to the
Lake Erie waters. In Michigan v. Ohio, the court upheld a special master's report and
ruled that the boundary between the two states in Lake Erie was angled to the
northeast, as described in Ohio's state constitution, and not a straight east–west
line.[48] One consequence of the decision was that Turtle Island, just outside Maumee
Bay and originally treated as wholly in Michigan, was split between the two states. [49]

This decision was the last border adjustment, putting an end to years of debate. In
modern times, although a general rivalry between Michiganders and Ohioans persists,
overt conflict between the states is restricted primarily to the Michigan–Ohio State
rivalry in collegiate American football and to a lesser degree to the rivalry between
the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians in American League baseball;[50] the Toledo
War is sometimes cited as the origin of the animosity represented in today's rivalry.[51]

USGS topographic map that shows the Ordinance Line as "South Bdy Michigan Survey". There are jogs
in many north–south roads at this line.

Michigan Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris and Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis shake on a truce over state
line markers erected in 1915.

The northern tier of townships in Williams County are within the Toledo Strip. The southern boundary of
[52]
each lies along the Ordinance Line.

The northern half of Dover Township in Fulton County Ohio, formerly claimed by Michigan, is shifted, or
"jogs", at "Old State Line Road", now County Road K.

See also[edit]
 List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
 List of Michigan county name etymologies
 Ohio Lands
 Timeline of the Toledo Strip

References[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
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of Southern Maine. Archived from the original on December 25, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
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5. ^ Mendenhall & Graham (1895), p. 153.
6. ^ Mendenhall & Graham (1895), p. 206.
7. ^ Hayden, Maureen (October 14, 2014). "Retracing a Border Incites Tensions Between Indiana,
Michigan". News and Tribune. Jeffersonville, Indiana. Retrieved March 27, 2022.
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10. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Public Affairs Office (March 4, 2002). "The Toledo War". Michigan Department of
Military and Veteran Affairs. Archived from the original on February 9, 2006. Retrieved May 12, 2006.
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14. ^ Sherman, C.E. & Schlesinger, A. M. (1916). Volume 1, Ohio-Michigan Boundary. Final Report, Ohio
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15. ^ Mendenhall & Graham (1895), p. 167.
16. ^ Galloway (1895), p. 208.
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20. ^ Galloway (1895), p. 213.
21. ^ Way (1869), p. 17.
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23. ^ Jump up to:a b Way (1869), p. 19.
24. ^ Galloway (1895), p. 216.
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 Bulkley, John McClelland (1913). "Toledo War". History of Monroe County, Michigan: A Narrative Account
of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests. Chicago: Lewis Publishing. pp. 137–161.
Retrieved May 8, 2006.
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Press. ISBN 978-0-472-07054-1.
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Approximate Location of the Original Boundary Line" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved June
9, 2015.
 Greene, Merritt (1960). Curse of the White Panther: A Story of the Days of the Toledo War. Hillsdale, MI:
Hillsdale School Supply.
 Hemans, Lawton T. (1920). Life and Times of Stevens Thomson Mason: The Boy Governor of Michigan.
Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission.
 Karl-George, Mary (1971). The Rise and Fall of Toledo, Michigan: The Toledo War!. Lansing: Michigan
Historical Commission.
 Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Michigan Becomes a State (Michigan Historical Marker). Ann
Arbor: Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original on March 25, 2006.
 Naldrett, Alan (2007). "Holy Toledo! Or the Continuing War Between Ohio and Michigan ..." (PDF).
Macomb County, Michigan. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2008.
 Toledo War at Ohio History Central
 "ToledoWar.com". ToledoWar.com. April 14, 2005. Archived from the original on March 6, 2008.
 Tuttle, Charles R. (1873). "Chapter XXXI". General History of the State of Michigan: With Biographical
Sketches, Portrait Engravings, and Numerous Illustrations. Detroit: R.D.S. Tyler. pp. 448–479. ISBN 0-
665-42277-6. Retrieved May 8, 2006.
 United States Congress (1860). "Thursday, June 5, 1843, 'Northern Boundary of Ohio'". Abridgment of the
Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856. New York: D. Appleton. pp. 367–370. ISBN 1-4255-6619-7.
Retrieved May 8, 2006.

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