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The Blade (Toledo, OH)
08-03-00
The state controlling board has released nearly $2 million from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to the Toledo Area Metropark District, state Rep. Chris Redfern (D., Port Clinton) has announced.
The money is the contribution promised by the state for the park district's purchase of the Fallen Timbers battlefield site, said Scott Carpenter, a parks spokesman.
The park district has an agreement with Toledo to buy the city-owned battlefield site in Maumee for $5.5 million.
The sale is to be in two parcels: 72 acres for $2.8 million this year, and 115 acres for $2.7 million by July 31, 2001.
So far, the parks have $2.8 million for the purchase - the $2 million from the state, $500,000 from Maumee, and $300,000 from Lucas County - which will secure the purchase of the first parcel. Because the state has pledged to pay for half of land acquisition costs of the park, at least $500,000 more in state money is expected next year, park officials have said.
The battlefield is part of about 1,200 acres, formerly in Monclova Township, which the city purchased for $14 million in 1987.
The city wanted to annex it, but the move was blocked by the courts. Toledo has gradually sold most of the land, much of which has been annexed to Maumee.
The sale deal, approved in June, ended a six-year effort to turn the 187 acres of land in Maumee into a national park. Congress last year declared the land a national historic site.
The 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which resulted from the Battle of Fallen Timbers, opened Ohio and much of the Northwest Territory to settlers. In the war, Gen. Anthony Wayne led forces that defeated an alliance of American Indian tribes.
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