Fog, Forts, and the Forgotten Frontier – How Forty-Eight Revolutionary Dreamers Landed on April 7, 1788, and Built the Midwest from Scratch—Your No-Nonsense Blueprint for Launching Your Own Personal Northwest Territory Today
On a misty April morning in 1788, a squat, sturdy river craft nicknamed the Adventure Galley—sometimes called the Mayflower of the West—nudged through thick fog along the Ohio River. Forty-eight hardy men, most of them battle-scarred veterans of the American Revolution, had traveled a thousand grueling miles from New England through the dead of winter. […]
