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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.
They built Fort Sandoské by 1750 (and perhaps a fortified trading post at Junundat in 1754). [15] By the 1730s, population pressure from expanding European colonies on the Atlantic coast compelled several groups of Native Americans to relocate to the Ohio Country. From the east, the Delaware and Shawnee arrived, and Wyandot and Ottawa from the ...
The Ohio Company, formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country (approximately the present U.S. state of Ohio) and to trade with the Native Americans. The company had a land grant from Britain and a treaty with Indians, but France also claimed the ...
Fort Bonneville. Fort Carondelet. Fort Clark Trading Post State Historic Site. Fort Hall. Fort Kiowa. Fort Michilimackinac. Fort Osage. Fort Renville. Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site.
Also known as the Old Fort Earthworks (15Gp1) it is a series of rectangular enclosures near South Portsmouth in Greenup County, Kentucky. Group A is a large square enclosure with two series of parallel walls extending from the northeast and southwest corners. The Old Fort Earthworks consist of several sites, including the Old Fort Earthworks ...
70000490 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. November 10, 1970. Shrum Mound is a Native American burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park in Columbus, Ohio. [ 2 ] The mound was created around 2,000 years ago by the Pre-Columbian Native American Adena culture. [ 2 ] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [ 1 ]
He befriended the Miami people, settling first at the St. Joseph River, and, in 1704, establishing a trading post and fort at Kekionga, present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, the de facto Miami capital which controlled an important land portage linking the Maumee River (which flowed into Lake Erie and offered a water path to Quebec) to the Wabash ...
Navajo trading posts flourished on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah from 1868 until about 1970. Trading posts, usually owned by non- Navajos, were the origin of many populated places on the reservation. They were often the center of commercial, cultural, and social life for the Navajos.