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Mesopotamia Township is one of the twenty-four , 2007. Accessed 15 May 2007. GEOGRAPHY Located in the northwestern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
No municipalities are located in Mesopotamia Township. NAME It is the only Mesopotamia Township statewide. HISTORY In 1798 Pierpont Edwards of Connecticut paid $2500.00 for the 25 square miles (65 km&2) of wilderness in modern-day Trumbull County , Ohio that today is Mesopotamia Township. The following spring, John Stark Edwards , just out of college, journeyed alone on foot, carrying an ax and knapsack, across the Pennsylvania frontier into the tangled forest. Encouraged by the new lands that he saw, he decided to begin a settlement. He offered 100 acres (0.4 km&2) of free land to the first five families to come and stay five years, and fifty acres (0.2 km&2) to the first five single men. These men were Seth Tracey, Capt. Hezekiah Sperry, Joseph Noyles, Otis Guild, and Dr. Joseph Clark. Beginning in and Cuyahoga River s. GOVERNMENT The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township clerk, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the clerkship or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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