Editing Terrace Park, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Terrace Park St Johns.jpg|thumb|left|St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Terrace Park]]
The primary document for the history of Terrace Park is "A Place Called Terrace Park" by Ellis Rawnsley (1992).<ref name=Rawnsley>[http://www.terracepark.com/tpbook.html A Place called Terrace Park by Ellis Rawnsley, 1992]</ref>

Rawnsley notes that the earliest human inhabitants of Terrace Park may have arrived as early as 12,000 years ago—the [[Paleo-Indians]].  Although "no traces of established settlements have ever been found," flints showing evidence of these nomadic people have been found in various locations in the areas surrounding Terrace Park.

Circa approximately 1000 B.C., settlements appeared in [[Hamilton County, Ohio]].

According to Rawnsley, "Two thousand or more years ago, a primitive people built, in what is now Terrace Park, one of the largest of its kind of the 295 prehistoric [[earthworks (archaeology)|earthworks]] ever found in Hamilton County."<ref name=Rawnsley/>

Mounds from the [[Adena culture]] are found throughout a wide area which contains Terrace Park.

In January 1789, Abraham Covalt established a small fortified settlement called Covalt Station in what is now Terrace Park. The area was surrounded by [[Shawnee]] settlements, and the Shawnee were hostile towards the white settlement in their midst. Covalt Station had to be abandoned in 1792 due to continuing attacks by the Shawnee, and white settlers only returned after General [[Anthony Wayne|"Mad Anthony" Wayne]] defeated the Native American [[Western Confederacy]] at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] and secured the [[Treaty of Greenville]] which ceded all of southern Ohio (and other territory) to the United States. Before roads and railroads connected the village to other nearby settlements, such as [[Milford, Ohio|Milford]], most residents of Terrace Park kept cattle and chickens, and engaged in other agricultural activities for their own subsistence, and had "homesteads" as opposed to the ordered residential village of today.<ref name=Rawnsley/>

Terrace Park was incorporated in 1893.