Ohio Company of Associates
18th-century land company in Ohio / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the earlier Ohio Company of Virginia, see Ohio Company.
The Ohio Company of Associates, also known as the Ohio Company, was a land company whose members are today credited with becoming the first non-Native American group to permanently settle west of the Allegheny mountains. In 1788 they established Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent settlement of the new United States in the newly organized Northwest Territory.[1]