This stone tablet can be found beside the Highway 202 also known as "Girdled Road" located near Concord, Lake County, Ohio. It refers to the FIRST surveyed road in Western Reserve, part of Northwest Territory, which became latter the present-day Northeast Ohio.
According to Wikipedia, "... the Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly part of northeastern region of the U.S. state of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony by King Charles II. Following the American Revolutionary War, Connecticut gave up claim to some of its western lands, but sold the Western Reserve to developers initially. It finally ceded control of this portion to the United States, and the area was organized under the Northwest Territory, until Ohio was admitted as a state. "Western Reserve" is referred to in numerous institutional names.
The text on the tablet reads as fallow:
THIS TABLET MARKES THE FIRST
SURVEYED ROAD IN WESTERN
RESERVE, AND IS KNOWN AS THE
"GIRDLE ROAD". IT WAS BUILT FROM
THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE TO THE
GUYAHOGA RIVER IN CLEVELAND
IN 1798 BY CONNECTICUT LAND
COMPANY. GENERAL SIMON PERKINS
COMMANDED THE BUILDING PARTY.
ONE HALF MILE EAST OF THIS PLACE
IS THE SITE OF "PERKINS CAMP" WHERE
THE FIRST LOG HOUSE IN CONCORD
TOWNSHIP WAS ERECTED BY GENERAL
PERKINS, AND OCCUPIED BY HIM AND
HIS FORCE DURING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THIS ROAD. IT WAS IN THIS CAMP
THAT THE FIRST ELECTION FOR TRUM-
BULL COUNTY, WHICH THAN INCLUDED
ALL THE EASTERN OHIO, WAS HELD.
ON SECOND TUESDAY OF OCTOBER
1802, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING
DELEGATES TO THE TERRITORIAL
LEGISLATURE AND ALSO DELEGATES
TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
ERECTED BY NEW CONNECTICUT
CHAPTER DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN 1913.
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