Connecticut Western Reserve

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About Connecticut Western Reserve

Everything Western Reserve: village squares, county fairs, covered bridges, Lake Erie, Amish wagons and farms, barns, farmhouses, old country churches and schools, small towns. And the more modern parts as well (steel mills, port operations, etc.)

For those who aren't familiar with the area, the Connecticut Western Reserve is basically the Northeast corner of Ohio.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Western_Reserve

It got its name when the new states ceded their western land claims back to the Federal government in the 1780s. Connecticut had a claim to a strip of land the height of Connecticut from the western border of Pennsylvania all the way to the Pacific Ocean (many other states had claims to the same land, which was where the problem came from). When Connecticut ceded back its land, it "reserved" the eastern portion for land claims for Revolutionary War veterans and for reparations for people who had been burned out by the British (hence, the western segment of the Reserve got the name "Firelands"). Many of the small towns in the Western Reserve look freakishly like New England villages, complete with a town common, white clapboard New England-style houses, white New England churches with tall steeples, etc. Hopefully, this group will have a little taste of all of that.