Editing Lucas County, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Court House -- Toledo, O. - DPLA - 32e1382a9c71b34d0357f8c8c38ca02c (page 1).jpg|alt=Exterior view of Lucas County Courthouse with man walking and pile of snow.|thumb|left|Lucas County Courthouse, 1910s]]
On August 20, 1794, near the site of the present-day town of [[Maumee, Ohio|Maumee]], American forces led by [[General Anthony Wayne]] won a decisive victory over allied Indian forces at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] after years of conflict in what was known as the [[Northwest Indian War]]. The defeat of the Native forces resulted in the opening of the entire [[Northwest Territory]] for white settlement. Northwest Ohio was occupied chiefly by villages and bands of the [[Odawa people]], who had trading relations with the French at [[Fort Detroit]] since 1701. Other Odawa were located in southeast Michigan and further north on the peninsula. They ceded much of that territory in the [[Treaty of Greenville]] but retained control of lands along the [[Maumee River]] until after the [[War of 1812]]. The last Odawa band, that of Ottokee, grandson of Chief [[Pontiac (Ottawa leader)|Pontiac]], left the Maumee River area for Kansas in 1839.<ref>[[Helen Hornbeck Tanner]], ed., ''Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History'' (University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1986) pp. 3, 58–59</ref><ref>Larry Angelo (2nd chief of the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma), ''The Migration of the Ottawas from 1615 to Present,'' (1997), pp. 3-6</ref>

[[File:Disputed Toledo Strip.png|left|thumb|The disputed portion of Michigan Territory claimed by the state of Ohio known as the ''Toledo Strip''.]]
Lucas County was established in 1835. At that time, both Ohio and [[Michigan Territory]] claimed [[sovereignty]] over a {{convert|468|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} region along their border (see [[Toledo War]]). When Michigan petitioned [[United States Congress|Congress]] for [[U.S. state|statehood]] in 1835, it sought to include the disputed territory within its bounds. In response, the [[Ohio General Assembly]] formally organized part of the area as Lucas County, naming it after the incumbent [[governor]] of Ohio, [[Robert Lucas (governor)|Robert Lucas]].
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