The Western Reserve: Connecticut's Colony in Ohio
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- Looking at the history of the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio
Let me know what you think, and if there is anything I can improve on. Thank you!
#Ohio #History #connecticut #migration #America #Politics #Government #westernreserve #newengland
Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
1:02 The Firelands
4:11 Moving Out West
6:19 Challenging the Old Order
8:11 Ohio
Patreon: / lawarch
Credits:
Sound effects from 512 Sound Effects (8-bit style) by Juhani Junkala or in the public domain
Other sound effects obtained from Zapsplat and Pixabay
Sources:
Charter of Connecticut - The Avalon Project (1662)
John Pynchon and the New England Fur Trade, 1652-1676 - Ruth A. McIntyre
Connecticut and the West Indies: Sugar Spurs Trans-Atlantic Trade - Brenda Milkofsky (2021)
New London Harbor on the Thames River - New London County Historical Society
New Connecticut on Lake Erie: Connecticut’s Western Reserve - Barbara Austen (2020)
Connecticut - Albert E. Van Dusen (1961)
Western Reserve - Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (2024)
Making the Vermont Constitution: 1777-1824
Ratification by the States, Volume III: Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut (2009)
Connecticut 1818: From Theocracy to Toleration - MW Janis (2021)
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Leaving Connecticut: Shaping America with CT State Historian Walt Woodward - Litchfield Historical Society (2023)
James II??? NO!!! The King in 1662 was Charles II. The then Duke of York and Albany (for whom the state and its eventual capital would be named) was the King's younger brother and heir apparent, but wouldn't take the throne until Charles' death in 1685.
You're right thanks for catching that! It should have been Charles II. I must have mixed them up when looking putting when referencing the charter.
My grandmother was born and raised in Glenview, right by Case Western in the heart of Long Connecticut.
She was really a New Englander this entire time haha
The fact that this are was controlled by Connecticut is probably the reason why this area feels more East Coast than Midwestern.
Fun fact, Trumbull County, Ohio is named for the governor of Connecticut at the time the reserve was ceded to Ohio, Jonathan Trumbull Jr.
The county originally encompassed the entire area of the former Western Reserve before being broken up further.
I am from New London Ct… we have a remnant of war there called Fort Trumbull
I'm a History student in New London , loved the video. I knew about the town being burned down but had never heard about the "Firelands" afterwards. Will definently be sharing this around.
Glad you enjoyed it! Hope it captured the history of your city well!
We live IN the Western Reserve - less than a block away from Lake Erie and to the East of Cleveland. As you showed a lot of things have Western Reserve in their names - and it'd NOT dying out. Recent additions are a brewery and a distillery, just to name a few. Asked around and nobody we know has ever heard of anything being called "New Connecticut" (or anything with Connecticut in the name). The Firelands are also still remembered - a lot of names of things, a very popular winery, etc. are called Firelands or have Firelands in their name out towards Sandusky Bay. It's a neat little piece of history that's still remembered around here.
This is a great video! As someone who grew up in land that was formerly a part of the Western Reserve (Lorain County), I wanted to say that there are many towns, especially ones on coast of the lake, that feel right out of New England. The effects of the Western Reserve can definitely be seen even to this day. The amount of schools, businesses, and other institutions named after either the Western Reserve or the Firelands is staggering.
Great video! It’s also interesting to note that the accent in the old western reserve is largely the same as the accent in Connecticut.
Connecticut has breached containment. It’s spreading.
SCP-Connecticut
Yet another well made video on obscure randomness.
Thank you!
Funniest thing about this channel: every video ends with a thank you to two patrons.
It's always nice to see videos about Connecticut :)
Awesome work my friend, loved the video!!!
Great video, I grew up in Connecticut and always wanted to learn more about this. Very interesting about the Firelands
Interesting fact about the Connecticut Western Reserve. The land was divided up into Townships that are 5 miles square. In the rest of Ohio the Land was divided into townships that are 6 miles square. I grew up in Mahoning County which sits right on the border of the Western reserve, where the northern townships are smaller the the southern townships. We learned this fact in grade school.
Damn I live close and I didn't know any of that. I literally drive through western reserve all the time
It was really Connecticut this whole time LoL
Can't wait for your channel to explode in subscribers. Great content
Love these videos on niche topics that no one else covers
Thanks for watching! Appreciate all the support
My family has been in New London Ct since the 1600s…. The info presented here about Benedict etc was so on point 💜 side note …. New London has one of the most beautiful white sand beaches on the East coast where the Thames River meets the Atlantic Ocean in the Long Island Sound. You can tour some of the houses that survived the burning down of the city… Shaw Family Mansion and Hempstead Houses. Oh yay we had Nathan Hale schoolhouse there too and we were where the Amistad captives were brought and our citizens helped fight for the freedom of the Africans you can visit the pier and read about it. This city is very rich in history, but it is not very promoted as a tourist attraction maybe because we have the Coast Guard the Navy base we build submarines here too, but I promise you it is a wonderful New England city to visit and you will also get a Caribbean vibe, in these modern times we have a large Caribbean population as well as Irish British French and Italian. Thanks so much for the video🎉
Never heard about this, fascinating
love your editing man
Thanks appreciate the support!
As a Connecticutian I didnt know this, I knew of the charter that gave connecticut the land, but not that we setteled it.
Fascinating. I'm from New Jersey.
I saw another video on the western reserve from jackam a couple months back and now remember that Ohio also had a mass of settlers from the southern colonies region settle along the southern border of Ohio with Kentucky. Honestly antibellum American history has a few cool footnotes that get forgotten about due to us history focusing hard on ww2, the civil war, and the American revolution.
I knew those land claim maps of states with the long borders and everything, but I didn't know traces of it would still remain today in the form of names
Long Connecticut strikes again!
The name Firelands is popular and offhand I can think of Firelands Credit Union, Firelands Hospital, Firelands Counseling, Firelands Presbyterian Church, although the third is outside the original Firelands which is modern Huron County, Erie County (except Whites Landing), plus Danbury Township in Ottawa Country, and Ruggles Township in Ashland County. Maybe the mental health/addiction clinic is owned by the hospital? Danbury and Norwalk (county seat of Huron County) are places in Connecticut.
Nice
It would have been nice to show a map the exact extent of the Western Reserve. Being from Akron, Ohio, I know my city is just above the southern limit of the Western Reserve. We are proud to be in Ohio the only part that was in the initial 13 colonies and the USA as of July 4th, 1776!
I included a map of the Western Reserve in the background throughout the video including at around 3:27. But it is a bit hard to see, I'll try to improve on that for future videos. Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed the video!
Only in ohio💀
Connecticut* LoL
What's the difference?
I had not realized that my ancestors Meigs had helped to found ohio
Other Nice 👍
Thank you!
Can't have shi in Connecticut, had to move to Ohio 💀
So that is how they get joked on
Siskiyou COunty, Connecticut
-3:34, didn’t cover it was caused by a volcano.
Only in ohio 💀
Bro you are right above the comment you copied💀
@@pokemata1035 only in ohio 💀
@@alfredoramos-ck5ir 👌
Ohio jokes are unfunny
we call it the thames river in connecticut, it is pronounced like thames, as in the thumbs or thanks not whatever midwestern jargon you butchered it with
He pronounced it like the river in England is pronounced (from which the river in Connecticut derives its name)
But that’s helpful because that’s how you can distinguish the two.
Good content. Kinda fruity voice.
he doesn't sound fruity. What's the point in your comment anyways? Who compliments someone and then leaves a backhanded insult? Who raised you?
lmaaaaaao 😭🤣