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The Black River [2] is a tributary of Lake Erie, about 12 mi (19 km) long, in northern Ohio in the United States. [3] Via Lake Erie, the Niagara River and Lake Ontario, it is part of the watershed of the St. Lawrence River, which flows to the Atlantic Ocean. The Black drains an area of 470 mi² (1217 km²). [4]
See Battle of Fallen Timbers. [ 1] Downtown Cincinnati in 2010. The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800, and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union on March 1, 1803, as the 17th state of the United States. The recorded history of Ohio began in the late 17th century when French ...
The Great Black Swamp (also known simply as the Black Swamp) was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana, United States, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century. Comprising extensive swamps and marshes, with some higher, drier ground interspersed, it occupied what was formerly ...
The Ohio River is a 981-mile-long (1,579 km) river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United ...
Elyria ( / əˈlɪəriə / ə-LEER-ee-ə [6]) is a city in, and the county seat of, Lorain County, Ohio, United States, located at the forks of the Black River in Northeast Ohio 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Cleveland. [7] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 52,656. [8] It is a principal city in the Cleveland metropolitan area.
History. The pioneer-settlement of this township technically began by about the year 1808, but the continual efforts of pioneer John S. Reid (beginning about 1809) became the main impetus for the establishment of the later City of Lorain (which had begun as the village named Mouth-of-Black-River, officially established by 1823).
Lorain(/lɔːˈreɪn/)[8]is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located in Northeast Ohioon Lake Erieat the mouth of the Black River, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Cleveland. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 65,211,[9]making it Ohio's ninth-largest city, the third-largest in Greater Cleveland, and the largest ...
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Alpha), the first Black male Greek-letter organization, was founded in 1906 at Cornell University. It’s estimated that around 100,000 enslaved people escaped to ...