The Toledo War: When Michigan and Ohio Nearly Came to Blows

[rangerrebew]

The Toledo War: When Michigan and Ohio Nearly Came to Blows
By Evan Andrews // November 21, 2016
 

Michigan and Ohio are now famous for their college football rivalry, but in 1835, the residents of the Wolverine and Buckeye states nearly came to blows over a small sliver of land containing the modern day city of Toledo. The little-known border war saw the two sides mobilize their militias, conduct arrests and issue legal challenges against one another. Casualties were limited to one unfortunate Michigander who was stabbed in a barroom brawl, but the saber rattling eventually grew so intense that Congress and President Andrew Jackson were forced to step in and mediate.

http://www.history.com/news/the-toledo-war-when-michigan-and-ohio-nearly-came-to-blows

[Joe Wooten]

I remember reading about this when I was working at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo in 2001. Interesting little historical tidbit.