Toledo sits on the Maumee River and graces its banks with museums like Imagination Station, the National Museum of the Great Lakes, and the Toledo Museum of History. It was famous for being a glassware manufacturing hub in the 1880s.
Toledo was embroiled in an internal conflict between Ohio and Michigan when Michigan sought statehood in the 1830s. The Toledo Strip, as it was know, was a thin area of territory stressing from Lake Erie at Toledo all the way to Indiana. Poorly define geographical knowledge led to Bothe states claiming it was theirs. Troops were deployed but no battle was engaged.
The federal government offered the upper peninsula to Michigan as a compromise for letting Ohio keep Toledo. Michigan acquiesced.
