(Toledo)--Ohio and Michigan argued over the location of Ohio's northern border. 

The two sides amassed their militias on either side of the Maumee River to stake their claim to what eventually became the city of Toledo. It became known as "The Toledo War."

Just west of Toledo. Just north of the town of Crissey. You'll find Old State Line Road.

But about seven miles north you'll start running into survey stones that mark the actual boundary between Ohio and Michigan.

Michigan was still a territory, while Ohio achieved statehood in 1803 with the border still up in the air. Ohio lobbied Congress to resolve the dispute.

Surveyor William Harris started working on it in 1816. His survey, known as the Harris Line, put the mouth of the Maumee river completely in Ohio. Michigan felt slighted and commissioned a survey of their own. John Fulton's survey put the mouth of the Maumee completely in Michigan.

Out in eastern Fulton County, Ohio sent out a survey team to continue marking the state boundary. As you might imagine, Michigan wasn't very happy with that. They sent out some militia members to arrest the survey team. Half of them were arrested...the other half took off running.

Militia members fired shots over their heads, and no one was hit. That became known as the Battle of Phillips Corners. The closest thing we can find to any armed conflict in the entire Toledo War.

The fight, if you can call it that, ended in 1836 when Michigan accepted a deal brokered by President Andrew Jackson granting Michigan statehood, ceding Toledo back into Ohio and awarding a sizeable piece of Wisconsin, now the Upper Peninsula, to Michigan for playing nice.

They entered the union in 1837, ending a dispute that lasted nearly 40 years.

One person was hurt in the so called "Toledo War". In July of 1835 a Monroe County Sheriff's deputy was stabbed trying to arrest Major Benjamin Stickney for conducting Ohio business in what they said was Michigan territory.