The district comprises Toledo's oldest extant neighborhood and encompasses an area roughly bounded by Champlain, Summit, Walnut and Magnolia streets.

Vistula was a village established on land in what was then part of Michigan Territory, purchased in 1832 by Benjamin F. Stickney, in company with several investors from Lockport, New York, including Edward Bissell.

[2] Another settlement, named Port Lawrence, had first been established in 1817, although the companies arranging sales of the land failed and nothing much was developed until a new plat was recorded for the village in 1833.

[2][3][4] When Vistula and Port Lawrence merged to form the city of Toledo in 1837,[2] the area which had been contested between Michigan and Ohio in the Toledo War was granted to Ohio by the United States Congress.

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