Toledo War

The Toledo War of 1835 was a dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the Michigan Territory to the City of Toledo.

Due to inaccurate land surveys in the early 19th century, the southern tip of Lake Michigan was specified with two different coordinates. With the establishment of the Michigan Territory was established that the whole country belonged to the Michigan Territory to the southern tip. Michigan argued that the southern line would be the right while looking at the Ohio Northern Line as the right border. This disagreement led to a strip of disputed land, known as the Toledo Strip. Toledo was the only major city that was located in this strip.

When Michigan was given the status of a federal state, the border issue became acute. Michigan and Ohio could not agree and Ohio Governor Robert Lucas certain counties (English county ) in which he installed appropriate authorities. Toledo was in the Lucas County was named after the governor. Michigan 23 years old Territorial Governor Stevens Mason responded to this sovereign stress to the posting of militias in the region. Lucas did the same. The Toledo Strip was covered at this time with dense cedar swamps (also known as Black Swamp ), which was now almost completely drained for agricultural purposes. The Congress of the United States put on the matter by awarding of Toledo in Ohio and the western two- thirds of the upper Michigan peninsula (the eastern part was already part of the territory) to Michigan. Ohio was considered at that time as the winner of the decision because the Upper Peninsula was regarded as worthless; later the mineral wealth became known.