Old Northwest

noun

1. (in the early US) the land between the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, and the Ohio River. Awarded to the US in 1783, it was organized into the Northwest Territory in 1787 and now forms the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and part of Minnesota See also Northwest Territory

Example Sentences

Washington’s finest purveyors of metallic, skull-crushing sludge rock are toasting to 40 years of bandhood in 2023, returning to their old Northwest stomping grounds on a co-headlining run with fellow heavy music heavyweights Boris.

From Seattle Times

The Lincoln-Douglas debates appear as a struggle over Black civil rights and citizenship in the old Northwest Territory, one precipitated by the Black codes and the civil rights movement they triggered.

From Washington Post

It’s old Northwest contemporary, unique to Seattle.

From Seattle Times

Born into the cauldron of war that was the old Northwest where the Shawnee leader, Tecumseh, and his Native allies had faced down General William Henry Harrison and the United States Army, it is not surprising that he harbored unsympathetic views of Native people.

From Time

On weekends, they would take walks on the 606, an elevated park on an old Northwest Side railroad track.

From New York Times