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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 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.
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.
The Chief Richardville House and Miami Treaty Grounds are part of the Forks of the Wabash historic park along the Wabash River, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Huntington in Huntington County, Indiana. Richardville moved the Miami council house (tribal headquarters) from Fort Wayne to the Miami reserve land at the Forks of the Wabash in 1831.
Forks of the Wabash Historic Park at the southwestern corner of the junction of U.S. Route 24 and State Road 9 near Huntington 40°52′39″N 85°31′58″W / 40.87750°N 85.53278°W / 40.87750; -85.53278 ( Home of Chief Richardville
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 .
Forks of the Wabash at Huntington U.S. Route 31 Business crossing of the Wabash River in Peru, Indiana in 2022. The Wabash River rises 4 miles south of Fort Recovery, Ohio, very near the Darke-Mercer County line about 1.5 miles east of the Indiana-Ohio border. The water source is farmland drainage.
Here is another home owned by Richardville (lived in by Chief LaFontaine)– a white, two-story Greek Revival filled with period furniture and portraits of the owners. This is also the site where treaties were signed. Today, this house forms the centerpiece of the historic Forks of the Wabash park.