"War" With Happy Ending

Michigan troops made their headquarters here during the bloodless Toledo "war" in 1835. Intense rivalry between settlers of Michigan and Ohio fanned a controversy nearly to flame. Original U.S. surveys had placed the mouth of the Maumee River, around which Toledo was taking form, in Monroe County, but when Ohio started the Miami Canal it obtained from Congress a new survey that showed these lands in Ohio. Months of disturbance followed as Ohio partisans were seized on the contested frontier and tried in the Monroe County Court House. Militia of both states rushed to the border but never fought. The "war" ended when Michigan accepted the Upper Peninsula in exchange for the Toledo strip of Monroe County and gained admission to statehood in 1837.

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