Orange Township: Between the River & the Wooded Hills

by Vel Litt

Book Overview

Connecticut once claimed three million acres of unsurveyed land that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, between the 41st and 42nd parallels. The state ceded a 120-mile stretch of this land, west from Pennsylvania to the borders of Lake Erie, and sold it to a group of developers at 40 an acre. This land was subsequently purchased by the early settlers of Orange Township, who pushed their way through wilderness to the Chagrin River and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073850730X
• ISBN13: 9780738507309
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"