Editing Tippecanoe County, Indiana (section)

== History ==
{{Further|History of Indiana |Lafayette, Indiana#History}}
The history of Tippecanoe County spans six distinct political and cultural periods: Native American lands from at least 8000BC, including the [[Mississippian culture]], French occupation (part of [[New France]] beginning in the 1670s), [[French and Indian War|British occupation]] starting in 1763, part of the United States [[Northwest Territory]] in 1787, part of [[Indiana Territory]] in 1800, and finally part of the State of [[Indiana]] in 1816. The political organization of the county began in 1826 by the act of the Indiana Legislature.

The first European explorers arrived in the 1670s and the first permanent settlement was Fort Ouiatenon by the French established in 1717. Lafayette was platted in 1825 and Purdue University founded in 1869.