Creekside Art Gallery Blog

The Western Reserve lands of northeastern Ohio represent three million acres once owned by the Connecticut Land Company. "When the land company visited the Reserve and began to explore it (in 1796), the men could not say enough in praise of it. They gave glowing tributes, exalting the new Connecticut as a Garden of Eden whose natural advantage and beauties were unsurpassed with forests of magnificent growth, streams of clear sparkling water and deer, elk and fish affording much food for man. Moved by such inspiring accounts the great army of immigrants began to march."¹

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