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Populated places established in 1788

  • CincinnatiMathias Denman, Colonel Robert Patterson, and Israel Ludlow landed at the northern bank of the Ohio River in 1788 to establish a settlement.
  • New Madrid, MissouriIn the early 1780s, bands of Shawnee, Delaware, Creek, and Cherokee refugees established a settlement on the west bank of the Mississippi River.