The Two Mile Square Reservation or Two Mile Square Reserve was a tract of land in

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ceded by Native Americans to the United States of America in the

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in 1795. It was subsequently surveyed in a manner different from surrounding land, and lots sold to settlers.

History

The Americans won the

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in 1794, ending the

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. As a result of the battle, the Treaty of Greenville was signed, which ceded much of southern and eastern Ohio to America. In addition, Article 3 ceded a number of other tracts, including #11: "One piece two miles square, at the lower rapids of the Sandusky river." - Text of Treaty of Greenville

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The lower rapids is today in

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, and the reservation is on land that would have otherwise been part of townships four and five north, range fifteen east of the

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. During the

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Fort Stephenson Fort Stephenson (first known as "Fort Sandusky") was built in the early 1800s on the west side of the lower Sandusky River. It was the site in 1813 of an American victory in the Battle of Fort Stephenson during the War of 1812. The town that lat ...

was built within the reservation, and successfully defended by

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against attack by

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and Indian troops under General

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Survey and Sales

Congress arranged for a special indiscriminate location survey for the reserve. Under the Act of 1805, William Ewing subdivided it into four sections of a mile square in 1807, with neither township or range. These were numbered one to four, with one in the northeast corner, and counting anti-clockwise. By Act of April 27, 1816, - Text of Act of April 27, 1816

Joseph Wampler resurveyed the exterior lines, laid out 310 in-lots and 63 out-lots in the portion of section one east of the river for the town of Croghanville, set off two "Public Reserves" of one quarter section each, divided a river island in section one in two, and divided the remainder of the reserve into 22 "Fractional Sections" fronting the river of about each. The reserve was assigned to the

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Land District, with sales at the office in Wooster, for minimum prices assigned by the 1816 act. In 1829, the town was incorporated as Lower Sandusky, and the name was changed to Fremont in 1848.

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Ohio History Central- Treaty-of-Greeneville-1795-Transcript
{{Ohio-Lands Former regions and territories of the United States Former American Indian reservations in Ohio Fremont, Ohio Geography of Ohio History of Ohio

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