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Historic Forks of the Wabash is a historic museum park near Huntington, Indiana, that features several historic buildings, trails and remnants of the Wabash and Erie Canal. The location was the signing location of the historic Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash in 1838. [2] The park is located along the Wabash River.
The Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission erected a state historical marker in honor of Richardville at the Forks of the Wabash Historic Park in Huntington in 1966. [46] The Indiana Historical Bureau erected a state historical marker honoring Richardville at a site 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Peru in Miami County, Indiana, in 1992. [47]
The United States had already purchased the Miami claim to the region in the Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash, and the Pottawatomie were the only natives who still held a claim in the region. The land purchased was in the region of the headwaters of the Wabash in north central Indiana, and constituted no more than about 500,000 acres. Art. 1.
La Fontaine's body was returned to the Forks of the Wabash, and his remains lie in Mt. Calvary Cemetery near Huntington, Indiana. [6] Catherine La Fontaine died two years later. Francis and Catherine had seven children: Esther (married John Zahn), Frances (married George Gawn), Archangel (married Chris Engleman), Louis, John, Joe, and Tom.
The Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash (1834) also called Treaty with the Miami and Treaty of the Wabash was a Treaty between representatives of the United States and the Miami tribe and others living in the Big Miami Reserve of north central Indiana. The treaty was signed on Oct 24, 1834. [1] The accord contained nine articles.
Treaty of Mississinewas, also called Treaty of the Wabash, 1826 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Treaty at the Forks of the Wabash .
The first permanent hotel of Huntington was built of stone on this site by General John Tipton in 1835. Standing on the bank of the Wabash and Erie Canal, it was a commercial, political and social center. From 1862 to 1872 it housed one of the first public schools and was destroyed in 1873. [9] Forks of the Wabash Park (Museum),
Location of Wabash County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wabash County, Indiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wabash County, Indiana, United States.