David Tucker, a New Hampshire resident, moved to Richland County in 1819, where he set in a proposal to buy land in the rural country of the county. He was granted this proposal in 1824, allowing him to buy land from the state at $1.25 per acre. After purchasing a mass quantity of land from the state, Tucker hired Mr. Steward to survey the land for auctioning out. David's brother, John, was placed in charge as the head attorney authored to sell land to incoming settlers and pioneers in 1829. The auction was advertised in the local handbill "The Mansfield Shield and Banner", in which the land was described as "as good as a wheat growing country as the state can have." In response to this statement, the land for three major wheat mills was bought that year and mills were built in the following months. The town officially built and commissioned a postal office later that year. In 1830, the…
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History of the city of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio ..1888 · page 910Read the page →
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The first bridge crossing the Maumee within Waterville Township was at the site ol' the old Ferry, near Pray's Falls, and was built jointly b}' Wood and Lucas Counties in 1874. It was a wooden truss, costing $22,000, and was replaced in the Spring of 1888 by the Smith Bridge Co., with an elegant iron bridge, at a cost of over $30,000.
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History of the city of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio ..1888 · page 329Read the page →
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Lucas City was laid out in the Spring of 1830. The first announcement of its existence consisted of the following advertisement, which appeared in the Toledo Gazette: LUCAS CITY LOTS.
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A centennial biographical history of Richland county, Ohio1901 · page 85Read the page →
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Philip's anxiety for the safety of the family made him want to rush recklessly inside the house to learn their fate ; but his friends restrained him, and the weary, groping walk through the darkness to the block-house was commenced. A halt was made at a Mr. Hill's, where the town of Lucas now stands, and upon the break of day they proceeded to the Beam block-house on the Rocky Run, where the first settlement in the county was made, and there got a detachment of troops and some settlers, who accompanied them back to the Zimmer cabin, where they found the dead and mutilated body of the brave
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