Mounts Station
Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio
Marker Inscription
The First Settlement of the Virginia Military Lands in Warren County was located a short distance west of here by William Mounts in 1795
The Story
In 1795 the Ohio country was raw frontier, freshly opened to settlement as the Northwest Indian War drew to a close. The lands here were part of the Virginia Military District, a broad reserve Virginia had set aside to pay its Revolutionary War veterans in acres rather than cash. William Mounts planted the first settlement of those military lands in Warren County just west of this spot, establishing a frontier 'station' — a fortified cluster of cabins where early families gathered for safety on the edge of American expansion.
Why it matters
It marks the leading edge of the young republic's push into the Ohio Valley, where promises made to Revolutionary War soldiers were redeemed in wilderness land and turned into permanent American communities.
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Related people
- · William Mounts
Related events
- · Settlement of the Virginia Military District
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