l-os-anti-ville

Updated: June 28, 2025

Before the close of the year Congress sold one million acres between the two Miamis to Judge Symmes of New Jersey; and three little towns were at once laid out. To one of them a pedantic schoolmaster gave the name L-os-anti-ville, "the town opposite the mouth of the Licking."

Frederic Austin Ogg - The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond