Battle of Piqua

August 8, 1780

Within this park and immediate vicinity, former site of the Shawnee Indian Village of Piqua. The Shawnees and their British Allies were defeated by General George Rogers Clark with his army of Kentucky Frontiersmen. This battle greatly advanced ...

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3496 Veterans Memorial

Dedicated to Veterans

of All U.S.A. Wars

November 11, 1993

"For history does not long

entrust the care of freedom

to the weak or the timid"

Dwight Eisenhower

Dedicated Nov. 11, 2009

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Ohio Route 310) and Front Street, on the ...

Paxton Presbyterian Church

Founded in 1716

The first building on this site, a log structure, was erected about 1716. Regular pastorate was established in 1726. The present stone building was erected in 1740 and was restored in 1931. It is the oldest Presbyterian Church ...

Plainfield Cemetery

This cemetery, established in 1810, is the final resting place of many of the founders of Plainfield and Linton Township. Besides the early date of its founding, it is notable for the number of armed forces veterans interred here, who ...

Paxton Church

Organized as a congregation in 1732, with William Bertram as first pastor. The second pastor was the famed "Fighting Parson," John Elder. In the churchyard are buried John Harris, Jr., William Maclay and other notables of this region.

Marker is at ...

Peery Hotel

Utah Historic Site

The Peery Hotel was constructed in 1910

by Joseph S. and David H. Peery.

Marker is on West Broadway (300 South), on the right when traveling west.

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Paxton Church

Organized as a congregation in 1732, with William Bertram as first pastor. The second pastor was the famed "Fighting Parson," John Elder. In the churchyard are buried John Harris, Jr., William Maclay and other notables of this region.

Marker is at ...

Hopewell Treaty Site

The Hatchet Shall be Buried

The Hopewell Treaties were the first formal treaties after the battles between the United States and the Southern Native American tribes. Gen. Andrew Pickens, also known as "Skyagunsta" or "Border Wizard Owl," negotiated the treaties with ...

Van Camp's Store

This building was built in the 1850's. Mr. Van Camp housed his drug store here, which had the front blown out by a gasoline explosion in 1851. His Mother and himself perished in this tragedy. The building on either side ...

In Memory of Those Men Who Died in the Battle of Piqua

"In memory of those men who died in

the Battle of Piqua, August 8, 1780,

the largest Revolutionary War battle

West of the Alleghenies."

Marker can be reached from Tecumseh Road (Ohio Route 369) north of Lower Valley Pike.

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