MARIETTA – If walls could talk, the Ohio Company Land Office building behind the Campus Martius Museum would tell stories of when Gen. Rufus Putnam and his associates toiled over piles of maps ...

but the leading candidates include the Ohio Company Land Office in Marietta, the site of the first permanent Ohio settlement. The simple log cabin was built in 1788 as an office from which to sell ...

The Ohio Company merged with another land company to further exploit the region. Settlers for the most part resented these arrangements and, in time, joined the Patriots in their struggle against ...