Editing Wabash County, Indiana (section)

==History==
The area was inhabited for thousands of years by cultures of [[indigenous peoples]]. [[French people|French]] [[Exploration|explorers]] and [[merchant|traders]] encountered the historical [[Miami (tribe)|Miami]] [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]] beginning in the 17th century.

Wabash County, along with Delaware County, was originally formed Jan. 1820 out of the 1818 New Purchase resulting from the Treaty of St. Mary's. Wabash County was the Wabash River drainage area, and Delaware County, the White River drainage area. Numerous counties were carved out of the Wabash New Purchase. Wabash County as it exists today was organized out of a remnant portion of the original county in 1835.

The name "Wabash" is an English spelling of the earlier [[French language|French]] name for the river, ''Ouabache''. French traders derived the French version from the [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] name for the river, ''Wabashike'' (pronounced "Wah-bah-she-keh") (meaning "pure white".)  Much of the river bottom is white [[limestone]], now obscured by mud.