Editing Upper Sandusky, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Crawford expedition.PNG|thumb|300px|Upper Sandusky and surrounding villages at the time of the 1782 Sandusky Expedition]]

'''Upper Sandusky''' was a 19th-century [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] town named for its location at the headwaters of the [[Sandusky River]] in northwestern [[Ohio]].<ref name="Ohio Encyclopedia"/> This was the primary Wyandot town during the [[American Revolutionary War]] (1775–1783), and was sometimes also known as '''Half-King's Town''', after [[Dunquat]], the Wyandot "Half-King". The town and the surrounding settlements, like [[Captain Pipe]]'s Town, were closely allied with the British at [[Fort Detroit]]. During the [[Crawford expedition]] of 1782, Pennsylvania militiamen sought to destroy the town after the Wyandot began killing American settlers in the region, but were defeated en route.

After the war, in September 1783, a number of Native Americans met at Upper Sandusky and formed the [[Western Confederacy]], a confederation intended to resist U.S. expansion into the [[Northwest Territory]].{{citation needed|date=January 2019}} The [[Northwest Indian War]] followed.

In the War of 1812, the village became the site of Fort Feree (or Ferree) on a bluff overlooking the flood plain of the Sandusky River<ref>The local Elks Lodge is built where the stockade stood.</ref> The Fort was built in late 1812 by Pennsylvania militia led by Lieutenant Colonel Joel Ferree, by order of General [[William Henry Harrison]].

Upper Sandusky became part of the Wyandot [[Grand Reserve]] in the Upper [[Sandusky River]] area created by the [[Treaty of Fort Meigs]] in 1817. Prior to that, it was in northwestern Ohio Indian country above the [[Treaty of Greenville|Greenville Treaty]] line of 1795. Numerous indigenous Wyandot kept their settlements here until 1842, when they were driven out under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to what became [[Wyandotte County, Kansas]].  A small community of free Black people also lived in the old village.

A new town of Upper Sandusky was platted nearby the forcibly abandoned Wyandot village in 1843 and the first colonizer's house was built in 1845.  The first building in town was the county jail in 1846.  It was designated as the seat of Wyandot County in 1848.