Lately, my family has taken a few trips to Greenville, Ohio. And, being the history aficionados that we are, the trips always include many "small" history lessons as we traveled along Route 36.
1795-TREATY OF GREENVILLE
Greenville, actually its predecseeor Fort Greene Ville, was the sight of a treaty signing on August 3, 1795 between American forces led by "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the many Native American Tribes in the Ohio Country. This treaty came after General Wayne successfully defeated Native American Forces in the Battle of Fallen Timbers near present-day Toledo.
The Treaty of Greenville was a treaty negotiated with representatives from the Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Attawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, Miami, Wea, Kickapoo, and Kaskaskia tribes. In return for goods valued a today's cost of $20,000, the tribes agreed to stay north and west of the treaty line that was surveyed. However, in later years, this line was arbitrarily observed or ignored by new settlers to the region. The tribes were continuously pushed further north and west.
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