Ohio Counties
Adams
Historical
Collections of Ohio
By
Henry Howe
Vol.
II
LUCAS
COUNTY
Page 136
Lucas County, named from the Hon. Robert LUCAS who, Governor of Ohio from 1832 to
1836, was formed in June, 1835. The
surface is level, a portion of it covered by the black swamp, and the northern
part a sandy soil.
Area about 440 square miles. In 1887 the acres cultivated were
67,552; in pasture, 8,659; woodland, 22,789; lying waste, 2,662; produced in
wheat, 223,061 bushels; rye, 35,900; buckwheat, 3,834; oats, 338,045; barley,
14,034; corn, 582,549; broom-corn, 600 lbs. brush; meadow hay, 13,622 tons;
clover hay, 5,779; flaxseed, 1,604 bushels; potatoes, 156,618 bushels; butter,
412,986 lbs.; sorghum, 766 gallons; maple sugar, 75 lbs.; honey, 4,835 lbs.;
eggs, 298,618 dozen; grapes, 640,289 lbs.; wine, 25,126 gallons; apples, 90,136
bushels; peaches, 3,036; pears, 2,913; wool, 26,837 lbs.; milch cows owned,
4,968. School census, 1888, 30,401;
teachers, 372. Miles of railroad track,
256.
|
Township And Census |
1840 |
1880 |
|
Township And Census |
1840 |
1880 |
|
Adams |
|
1,511 |
|
Spencer |
|
686 |
|
Amboy |
452 |
|
|
Springfield |
443 |
705 |
|
Chesterfield |
301 |
|
|
Swan Creek |
494 |
|
|
Clinton |
353 |
|
|
Swanton |
|
658 |
|
German |
452 |
|
|
Sylvania |
426 |
1,421 |
|
Gorham |
352 |
|
|
Toledo (City) |
|
50,137 |
|
Monclova |
|
1,031 |
|
Washington |
|
2,712 |
|
Oregon |
264 |
2,321 |
|
Waterville |
755 |
1,925 |
|
Port Lawrence |
2,335 |
|
|
Waynesfield |
1,290 |
2,036 |
|
Providence |
160 |
1,164 |
|
Wing |
145 |
|
|
Richfield |
204 |
1,070 |
|
York |
435 |
|
|
Royalton |
401 |
|
|
|
|
|
Population of Lucas in 1840, 9,392; 1860,
25,831; 1880, 67,377, of whom 37,283 were born in Ohio; 4,263 in New York;
1,599, Pennsylvania; 762, Indiana; 237, Virginia; 225, Kentucky; 8,267, German
Empire; 3,284, Ireland; 1,688, British America; 1,338, England and Wales; 419,
France; 213, Scotland, and 73, Sweden and Norway. Census of 1890, 102,296.
Page 137
Battle
of the Fallen Timbers.
This region of country - the Maumee valley -
has been the theater of important historical incidents. The greatest event, WAYNE'S victory, or
"The Battle of Fallen Timbers," was fought August 20, 1794, within
the limits of this county.
On the 28 of July, WAYNE having been joined
by General SCOTT, with 1,600 mounted Kentuckians, moved forward to the
Maumee. By the 8th of August the
army had arrived near the junction of the Auglaize with that stream, and
commenced the erection of Fort Defiance, at that point. The Indians, having learned from a
deserter of the approach of WAYNE'S army, hastily abandoned their headquarters
at Auglaize, and thus defeated the plan of WAYNE to surprise them, for which
object he had cut two roads, intending to march by either. At Fort Defiance, WAYNE received full
information of the Indians, and the assistance they were to derive from the
volunteers at Detroit and vicinity.
On the 13th of August, true to the spirit of peace advised by
Washington, he sent Christian MILLER, who had been naturalized among the
Shawanese, as a special messenger to offer terms of friendship. Impatient of delay, he moved forward,
and on the 16th met MILLER on his return with the message, that if the
Americans would wait ten days at Grand Glaize (Fort Defiance) they - the
Indians - would decide for peace or war.
On the 18th the army arrived at Roche
de Bouef, just south of the site of Waterville, where they erected some
light works as a place of deposit for their heavy baggage, which was named Fort
Deposit. During the 19th the army
labored at their works, and about 8 o'clock in the morning of the 20th moved
forward to attack the Indians, who were encamped on the bank of the Maumee, at
and around a hill called "Presque Isle," about two miles south of the
site of Maumee City, and four south of the British Fort Miami. From Wayne's report of the battle we
make the following extract:
The Legion was on the right, its flank covered by the
Maumee: one brigade of mounted volunteers on the left, under Brig.-Gen. TODD,
and the other in the rear, under Brig.-Gen. BARBEE. A select battalion of mounted volunteers
moved in front of the Legion, commanded by Major PRICE, who was directed to
keep sufficiently advanced so as to give timely notice for the troops to form
in case of action, it being yet undetermined whether the Indians would decide
for peace or war.
After advancing about five miles, Major Price's corps received so severe a fire from the enemy, who were secreted in the wood and high grass, as to compel them to retreat. The legion was immediately formed in two lines, principally in a close thick wood, which extended for