page_title: Turnpike Lands
section_title: Grant by Congress
hierarchical_section_title: Turnpike Lands / Grant by Congress
caption_attribution_description: English: lands granted to en:Ohio in 1828 by congress to supports construction of a road. Lands known as the en:Turnpike Lands
context_page_description: Turnpike Lands were a group of land tracts granted by the United States Congress to the state of Ohio in 1827 along the path of a proposed road in the northwest corner of the state.
context_section_description: It became more desirable to run a road to Sandusky City on Lake Erie rather than Fremont. In 1827, and clarified in 1828, Congress granted to the state of Ohio “forty-nine sections of land to be located in the Delaware Land District, in the following manner, to-wit: Every alternate section through which the road may run, and the section next adjoining thereto on the west, so far as the said sections remain unsold, and, if any part of the sections shall have been disposed of, then a quantity equal thereto shall be selected by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, from the vacant lands in the sections adjoining on the west of those appropriated.”
  The road was constructed by the Columbus and Sandusky Turnpike Company. The grant of 31,596.09 acres (127.8648 km²) was declared for the use and benefit of the turnpike company by the state legislature in 1828 for the purpose of building the road, and authorized the company to sell the land and the governor to execute the deeds to the purchasers.
  Ohio State Route 4 north of Bucyrus in Seneca and Crawford counties, and Ohio State Route 98 south of Bucyrus in Crawford and Marion counties are situated along the path of the Columbus and Sandusky Turnpike where the 1828 grant was made.
caption: The Turnpike Lands in northwest Ohio
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