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Private Utilities and Public Resources: 19th-Century Capitalism and Local Governance in Northwest Ohio (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Northwest Ohio experienced explosive growth in the second half of the 19th century due to the importance of Toledo as a Great Lakes shipping entrepôt as well as the discovery of oil and natural gas deposits in the counties to the south of Toledo. From the 1870s to the early 1900s private ventures and local governments sparred over...