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Jill Rowe Western Michigan University

Lambert Lands Memorial [1]

Wren, Ohio in Van Wert County

Rumley, Ohio in Shelby County, Ohio

Cathagena, Ohio in Mercer County, Ohio [1]

Houston Hollow in Scioto County

established by slaveowners

Black Fork, Phio in Lawrence County, Ohio

Samuel Gist's Gist Settlement in Highland County, Ohio and Brown County, Ohio

Poke Patch in Lawrence County

Bowell, Ohio and Big Bottom in Gallia County

Hayti, Ohio in Jefferson County, Ohio

Upper Camp and Lower Camp in Brown County

George C. Mendenhall's Mendenhall Settlement in Logan County, Ohio. It was illegal to free slaves in North Carolina. He brought his soaves to Ohio.[2]

other settlements

Berlin Cross in Jackson County Berlin Crossroads??? (see Roads, Ohio)

African Hill, Ohio in Brown County, Ohio and Delaware County, Ohio

Tobias Hicks' Hicks Settlement in Pickaway County and Ross County, Ohio

East Jackson section of Jackson Township, Ohio in Pike County, Ohio

Greenville, Ohio in Darke County, Ohio

New Guinea, Ohio in Starke County, Ohio

Settlement established by Benjamin Ladd in Sandusky County

Also Harris Station in Ross County, Cheviot, Ohio in Harris County, Ohio, Lucas Settlement in Brown County, Pee Pee Settlement in Pike County, Twyman Settlement in Lawrence County and Chillicothe in Ross County

References

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  1. ^ ""In Strength & Struggle: Free Black Communities in the Old Northwest"".
  2. ^ https://www.yesweekly.com/news/jamestown_news/mendenhalls-active-in-abolition-of-slavery/article_02833f90-b2d1-11ed-bf74-f30a85ea2b8b.html