Portal:Ohio/On this day.../April 18
(1789) Thomas Hutchins, the Geographer General of the United States and first surveyor of the Northwest Territory, dies at age 59. Hutchins was the first to survey the land that would become Ohio.
(1789) Thomas Hutchins, the Geographer General of the United States and first surveyor of the Northwest Territory, dies at age 59. Hutchins was the first to survey the land that would become Ohio.