Attention History Buffs - NW Indian War and F&I War sites (Dayton: home)

[Wolfcamp]

My wife and I are planning a trip to Ohio & Pennsylvania in the fall. While there I would like to visit any museums and historical sites that relate to the Northwest Indian Wars & French & Indian War. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

[Dayton Sux]

The big Indian war here was the one that pitted the Shawnee and a few other tribes, with Little Turtle as the leader, against the Americans. The US suffered two big defeats until Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers.

Here is the story of one of the defeats:
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/...Defeat?rec=557

There are a number of historic sites relating to this war open to the public:

Fort Saint Clair
Fort Saint Clair

Fort Recovery
https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/mu...ecovery-museum

Fort Greenville, Anthony Wayne's base for the campaign that led to the defeat of the Indians...& where the Treaty of Greene Ville was signed, is now the town of Greeneville. They have a local history museum...the Garst Museum...that has a gallery dedicated to the Indian war and subsequent treaty, with a terrain model of the fort and a map of the fort superimposed on the modern town so you can see how the fort (which was quite large, really a fortified garrison town), influenced the layout of the subsequent town.
Garst Museum - Home of the Annie Oakley Center

The Treaty of Greene Ville was important to local history here as it opened southern Ohio and a portion of SW Indiana to "white" settlement, and remained the indian frontier until later treaties in the early 1800s (after statehood, I think?) extinguished aboriginal title to the remainder of the state (with some exceptions).

The treaty line is still visible in country road alignments and in some county boundaries. At least one of the military roads remains in part as a country road... "Waynes Trace" ...in, I think, Preble County...

Recommendation is to get one of those DeLorme Atlases and plan out yr visit using it. You can follow US 127 north roughly paralleling the route of the US armies.

[Wolfcamp]

Thanks Dayton! You've mentioned a couple that I hadn't thought of.

We're really looking forward to this trip. Hopefully the weather will be as nice as the weather stats say. We're going late September through early October.