Fort Finney
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N 39° 07.112 W 084° 48.254
16S E 689827 N 4332226
Monument on the side of the road near the Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky corner.
Waymark Code: WM912J
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2010
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TEXT:
FORT FINNEY
A company of soldiers from Fort Pitt landed at the mouth of the Great Miami October 22, 1785, and immediately began the building of a fort near this site. It was named Fort Finney in honor of Major Walter Finney, who was in command of the operation.
The Continental Congress had commissioned generals George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler, and Samuel H. Parsons to make a peace treaty with the Shawnee Indians and to mark off lands to be allotted to that tribe.
This site was chosen as being "most convenient to the principle body of savages and nearly equal distance from the rapids (Louisville) and the interior part of Kentucky and Limestone (Maysville)"
Invitations were sent to the reluctant Indians, who finally met by the council house near the fort during the middle of January, 1786. On January 31, 1786 the treaty with the Shawnee Nation was signed, resulting in the immediate removal of hostile Indians from the area.
Erected by the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company - 1953
Group that erected the marker: Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
Brower Road
North Bend, OH USA
45052
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