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Hell Town is the name for a Lenape (or Delaware) Native-American village located on Clear Creek near the abandoned town of Newville, in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] The site is on a high hill just north of the junction of Clear Creek and the Black Fork of the Mohican River.
Pickawillany (also spelled Pickawillamy, Pickawillani, or Picqualinni) was an 18th-century Miami Indian village located on the Great Miami River in North America's Ohio Valley near the modern city of Piqua, Ohio. [2] In 1749 an English trading post was established alongside the Miami village, selling goods to neighboring tribes at the site.
Kittanning was an 18th-century Lenape village in the Ohio Country, located on the Allegheny River at present-day Kittanning, Pennsylvania. The village was at the western terminus of the Kittanning Path, an Indian trail that provided a route across the Alleghenies between the Ohio and Susquehanna river basins.
November is Native American Heritage Month. Here's a list of sites to learn more about Native American culture in the Buckeye State.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 established a procedure for sale of government land in what is now Ohio.It read in part: And be it further ordained, That the towns of Gnadenhutten, Schoenbrun, and Salem, on the Muskingum, and so much of the lands adjoining to the said towns, with the buildings and improvements thereon, shall be reserved for the sole use of the Christian Indians, who were formerly ...
Muskingum (also known as Conchake) was a Wyandot village in southeastern Ohio from 1747 to 1755. [3]: 288 It was an important trade center in the early 1750s, until it was devastated by smallpox in the winter of 1752.
An 1899 bird’s-eye view of Mingo Junction. The Mingo Indian tribe once had a settlement at the location of the present day village, which is the source of its name. . Originally known as Mingo Bottom or Mingo Town, it was the starting point for the ill-fated Crawford expedition against Native Americans in 1782, during the American Revoluti
Jeromesville was platted in 1815 ( near the site of a former and abandoned Native-American village named "Jerometown"). [4] It is named for Jean/John Baptiste Jerome, (a French-Canadian fur trader and pioneer settler), from whom, Christian Deardorf and William Vaughn purchased land and 'founded' a new pioneer village, (which was originally spelled "Jeromeville").