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Clark County · Native · 1752 – 1754

Odawa raid at Eskippakithiki, 1753

At the Shawnee town of Eskippakithiki (Indian Old Fields, Clark County)—Kentucky’s last major Native town of the 1700s—Pennsylvania trader John Finley kept a store and stockade in 1752.

In January 1753 an Odawa (Ottawa) raiding party hit the post: three of Finley’s servants were taken, furs and goods seized; Finley and John Faulkner escaped because they were away that day. The attack, amid rising French–British and intertribal pressure, helped push the Shawnee to abandon the palisaded cornfields by about 1754 and rejoin kin in southern Ohio—clearing the Warrior’s Path years before Boone’s long hunt.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Odawa raid at Eskippakithiki, 1753." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 12, 2026. Last revised September 12, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/odawa-raid-at-eskippakithiki-1753/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Odawa raid at Eskippakithiki, 1753." Kentucky History Drive, published 12 Sept. 2026, last revised 12 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/odawa-raid-at-eskippakithiki-1753/.

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