Rufus Putnam
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Rufus Putnam was an American military officer who fought during the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. As an organizer of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was instrumental in
Portrait miniature by John Trumbull, c. 1790
Gen. Rufus Putnam at center-rear
View of the West Point area from Fort Putnam.
Putnam's house in Rutland, Massachusetts, still stands and is now a B&B.
Marietta, Ohio
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Marietta is a city in Washington County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is located in southeastern Ohio at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, 11 miles northeast of Parkersb
Rufus Putnam
…to organize the territory, the Company bought about 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2) of land north of the Ohio River, between the present day sites of Marietta, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia. Cutler had tried to purchase all the land between the Ohio and Scioto rivers, but the western half was optioned by the…
Downtown Marietta, with Muskingum River in foreground, and Ohio River in background right
Muskingum River near its mouth in downtown Marietta
Campus Martius fort at Marietta, with conical Great Mound visible in background to right of tree
Picketed Point stockade at Marietta