The Western Reserve and early Ohio

By Peter Cherry

Book Overview

Before Ohio was a state of cities, it was a contested shoreline of woods, surveys, and stubborn hopes. A frontier is being made. In The Western Reserve and early Ohio, P. P. Cherry offers regional history nonfiction with the immediacy of lived memory: how the Connecticut Western Reserve was measured, settled, argued over, and gradually turned into Ohio pioneer communities. Moving through early Ohio settlement and the daily mechanics of founding towns, roads, churches, and courts, Cherry maps the pressures that shaped early nineteenth century Ohio and the character of northeast Ohio history. It traces New England ideals, boundary frictions, and the realities of soil, weather, and distance on the Reserve. The result is an American frontier history that sits squarely within Great Lakes regional history, attentive to land, law, migration, and the persistence of community. Long valued as a genealogy research reference and an Ohio local history study, this classic history reprint gathers the kind of names, places, and institutional beginnings that modern readers still search for, while remaining readable for anyone who wants to understand why the Reserve developed so distinctly. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, presented as a complete unabridged edition. For casual history readers it is a clear window onto settlement-era decision making; for classic-literature collectors it is a durable piece of regional record, worth keeping close.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353800927
• ISBN13: 9789353800925
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"