Editing Hamilton County, Ohio (section)

==History==
The southern portion of Hamilton County was originally owned and surveyed by [[John Cleves Symmes]], and the region was a part of the [[Symmes Purchase]]. The first settlers rafted down the [[Ohio River]] in 1788 following the [[American Revolutionary War]]. They established the towns of [[History of Cincinnati#Losantiville|Losantiville]] (later Cincinnati), [[North Bend, Ohio|North Bend]], and [[Columbia Township, Hamilton County, Ohio|Columbia]].

Hamilton County was organized in 1790 by order of [[Arthur St. Clair]], governor of the Northwest Territory, as the second county in the [[United States Northwest Territory|Northwest Territory]]. Cincinnati was named as the seat. Residents named the county in honor of [[Alexander Hamilton]], who was the first [[Secretary of the Treasury]] of the [[United States]] and a founder of the Federalist Party. Its original boundaries were those defined for the Symmes purchase contract in 1788:<ref>However, the Symmes purchase was later reduced to just the southern third of the original tract.</ref> the Ohio River in the South, Great Miami River to the west, the Lesser Miami River to the east, and the Cuyahoga River to the North. Its area then included about one-eighth of Ohio and had about 2,000 inhabitants (not including the remaining Native Americans).

The county was greatly expanded in 1792 to include what is today the lower peninsula of Michigan. Since 1796, other counties were created from Hamilton, reducing the county to its present size. The county was the location of much of the [[Northwest Indian War]] before and after its organization.

The United States forcibly removed most of the [[Shawnee people|Shawnee]] and other Indian peoples to move to locations west of the [[Mississippi River]] in the 1820s.

Rapid growth occurred during the 1830s and 1840s as the area attracted many [[Germans|German]] and [[Irish people|Irish]] immigrants, especially after the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] in Ireland and the revolutions in Germany in 1848.

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], [[Morgan's Raid]] (a [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] [[Cavalry in the American Civil War|cavalry]] campaign from Kentucky) passed through the northern part of the county during the summer of 1863.

The [[Sharonville Engineer Depot]] was constructed by the United States Army in northern Hamilton County in 1942, and continued to be used by the [[General Services Administration]] and then the [[Defense Logistics Agency]] after 1949. It is currently mostly redeveloped for industrial purposes.