Timeline story
Treaty of Greenville, 1795: the line to the Kentucky River
On August 3, 1795, at Fort Greenville in western Ohio, leaders of twelve nations (Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River, Wea, Kickapoo, Piankashaw, and Kaskaskia) made peace with Gen. Anthony Wayne, a year after their defeat at Fallen Timbers.
Blue Jacket urged the others to accept; Little Turtle of the Miami held out longest and signed only after saying he would be the last to sign and so the last to break it. The nations gave up most of present-day Ohio for $20,000 in goods plus yearly payments, and the treaty line ran from the Cuyahoga at today's Cleveland to Fort Recovery and then south-southwest to the Ohio River opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River, at Carrollton.
It ended the 1785–1795 Northwest Indian War, the war that had kept sending raiding parties across the Ohio into Kentucky. This story has no map pin: the treaty was signed in Ohio, and the point where its line met the Ohio River, opposite Carrollton, is already on the map with the Carrollton story.
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Snowden, Shannon. "Treaty of Greenville, 1795: the line to the Kentucky River." Kentucky History Drive. Published October 6, 2026. Last revised October 6, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/treaty-of-greenville-1795-the-line-to-the-kentucky-river/.
MLA
Snowden, Shannon. "Treaty of Greenville, 1795: the line to the Kentucky River." Kentucky History Drive, published 6 Oct. 2026, last revised 6 Oct. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/treaty-of-greenville-1795-the-line-to-the-kentucky-river/.