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College Township
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College Township
The "College Township"
was the full
survey township
located in the northwest corner of
Butler County, Ohio
, now corresponding to the
civil township
of
Oxford
, designated by the
Ohio General Assembly
to be the site of the state university now called
Miami University
. When Congress, on May 5, 1792, authorized the sale to
John Cleves Symmes
of the land known as the
Symmes Purchase
, one of the terms was that he would allocate a full township of land to support a university, a promise he never fulfilled. The
United States Congress
subsequently allowed the State of
Ohio
to pick a township in the
public domain
for a college. They chose a township in the first range in the
Congress Lands
, namely R1E T5.
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