Editing Greenville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Indigenous tribes in the region included the Wyandot, the Delaware, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Chippewa, the Pottawatomi, the Miami, the Wea, the Kickapoo, the Piankasha, the Kaskaskia and the Eel River. These participated in the Northwest Indian War, their effort to repel European Americans from the Northwest Territory.

Greenville is the historic location of Fort Greene Ville, built in November 1793 by General [[Anthony Wayne]]'s [[Legion of the United States]] during the [[Northwest Indian War]]. Named for Revolutionary War hero [[Nathanael Greene|Nathaniel Greene]], its defenses covered about {{convert|55|acre|m2}}, making it North America's largest wooden fort. It was a training ground and base of operations for the approximately 3,000 soldiers of the Legion and Kentucky Militia before their August 1794 march northward to the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]]. The [[Treaty of Greenville]] was signed at the fort on August 3, 1795, with chiefs of the tribes that had confronted the U.S. This brought an end to the Indian wars in the area and opened the Northwest Territory for European-American settlement.<ref>[http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1935 Greenville - Ohio History Central - A product of the Ohio Historical Society<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

In 1805<ref name=hmdb2022>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=28646|title=Tecumseh / Shawnee Prophet's Town|website=HMdb.org The Historical Marker Database|date=30 August 2022|last=Fischer, Jr.|first=William|orig-date=Originally published 15 March 2010|access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> or 1806,<ref name=hmdb2016>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=88741|title=In Memory of Tecumseh: The Tecumseh Boulder|website=HMdb.org The Historical Marker Database|last=Irick|first=Ronald|date=16 June 2016|orig-date=Originally published 18 September 2015|access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> the Shawnee chief [[Tecumseh]] and his younger brother [[Tenskwatawa]] established an illegal settlement in Greenville.<ref name=hmdb2022/>{{efn|A different account places an initial settlement by Tecumseh on [[Buck Creek State Park|Buck Creek]], Ohio followed by a 1798 move to the west fork of the [[White River (Indiana)|White River]] in Indiana<ref name=marsh2022>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tecumseh|title=Tecumseh|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|last1=Marsh|first1=James H.|last2=de Bruin|first2=Tabitha|date=9 August 2022|orig-date=Originally published 23 October 2011|access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>}} In peaceful protest of the boundary line of the Treaty of Greenville, their group occupied the confluence of Mud Creek and Greenville Creek until 1808.<ref name=hmdb2016/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ohio.org/things-to-do/destinations/tecumseh-point-preserve|title=Tecumseh Point Preserve|website=Ohio: The Heart of it All|publisher=Ohio Department of Development, TourismOhio|year=2020|access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> Under pressure from Indiana territorial governor [[William Henry Harrison]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-henry-harrison/|title=William Henry Harrison: The 9th President of the United States|website=The White House|access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref> and the burgeoning population of settlers, Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, and their followers relocated to [[Prophetstown State Park|Prophetstown]], Indiana,<ref name=hmdb2022/> near which [[Tecumseh's confederacy|the intertribal confederacy]] was shattered at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]].<ref name=marsh2022/> Tenskwatawa visited Greenville by request in 1826 as he accompanied the Shawnee during [[Shawnee#Aftermath|their removal]] by the U.S. Army.<ref name=hmdb2022/>

The Army abandoned Fort Greenville in 1796; it was partly burned later that year to retrieve nails used in its construction. Local settlers carried away some of its logs for building the new settlement of [[Dayton, Ohio]], to the south. In the War of 1812, the Army refitted what remained of the fort; it was used as a supply depot and staging area. The earliest European-American settlers came in 1807; the city of Greenville was officially founded in August 1808.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}