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The Upper Valley in western NH (where I'm from) also kind of seceded to Vermont for a short while: https://www.flowofhistory.org/the-rebellion-in-western-new-h
by akvadrako 5y ago
The Upper Valley in western NH (where I'm from) also kind of seceded to Vermont for a short while:
https://www.flowofhistory.org/the-rebellion-in-western-new-hampshire-and-the-lt-proposed-union-with-vermont-1776-1784/ https://www.flowofhistory.org/the-rebellion-in-western-new-h...
- ilamont 5y agoAnother weird border situation played out in the "Oblong" where a botched Colonial land survey created a kind of no-man's land between New York State, Connecticut, and the southwest corner of Massachusetts. How it got resolved related to an utterly bizarre incident in the 1850s. https://anchor.fm/lostmass/episodes/The-Lost-Corner-AKA-Hells-Acre--The-Oblong--Etc--E14-eonb5p https://anchor.fm/lostmass/episodes/The-Lost-Corner-AKA-Hell...
- asdff 5y agoMichigan and Ohio once went to war over Toledo.
- kfprt 5y agoEach tried to make the other take it....
- christophilus 5y agoLittle known fact: the bullet holes from that skirmish is where we get the phrase “Holy Toledo”.