[Pharmboy]

Interesting...I know from my neck o' the woods CT and NY came close to blows about their border. As a matter of fact, to this day you can see a remnant of the old fight: driving north on I-684 while firmly in NY, you see a sign that says "Welcome to Greenwich, CT." A small point of CT juts into NY there and they love to remind the Empire Staters of that.

And BTW, History Channel is running a series on how the states established their borders...I've watched a bit of it and it's pretty good.

I've added Clemenza since I would think he would love this kinda stuff.

[colorado tanker]

One vestige of the western land claims is Case Western Reserve University, which resulted in a merger with Western Reserve University. Connecticut called it’s strip of land west of Pennsylvania its “Western Reserve.” It attempted to hold on to most of the Ohio portion even after the states surrendered their land claims in exchange for federal assumption of their debts, but eventually was forced to give it up. The name still survives in some places.