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Roughly bounded by State Road 334, Interstate 865, Old Hunt Club Rd., and County Road 850E, southwest of Zionsville, Eagle Township, Boone County, Indiana Coordinates 39°56′25″N 86°19′17″W / 39.94028°N 86.32139°W / 39.94028; -86
Petit Fort was a structure located in northwestern Indiana, in or near the Indiana Dunes, near the mouth of Fort Creek, now known as Dunes Creek.It may have been a French military outpost, but was more likely a private residence, trading post, or at most a support station for larger forts in the area.
The original mill wheel was made of oak, but in the mid-19th century the wheels became metal, as wooden wheels only lasted 5–10 years before needing major repairs. When John Hunt Morgan did his 1863 Raid the mill was seen as being in dangered, as Morgan ransomed other Indiana mills such as Beck's Mill. [8]
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The Tragic Saga of the Indiana Indians. Paducah: Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 0-938021-07-9. Dillon, John Brown (1859). A History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816. Bingham & Doughty. Gresham, Matilda (1919). Life of Walter Quintin Gresham 1832–1895. Rand McNally ...
Indiana Magazine of History (1938): 188–194. online [permanent dead link ] Simms, Jeremiah Hickman, ed. The Last Night and Last Day of John Hunt Morgan's Raid: Eyewitness Accounts of Morgan's Ohio Raid of 1863. West Jefferson, OH: Genesis Publishing, 1997. OCLC 38070234. First published by the author in 1913.
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Indiana Rangers; Active: 1807–1809 1811 1812–1815: Disbanded: 1809 (first time) ... Battle of Wild Cat Creek (1812) Battle of Tipton's Island (1813) Commanders ...