Editing Wapakoneta, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Wapakoneta-ohio-courthouse.jpg|thumb|left|[[Auglaize County Courthouse]]]]
In 1748, the French built a trading post (Fort au Glaize, also known as "Wapakoneta Trading Post" or "AuGlaize Trading Post") about a half-mile northeast of the future site of Wapakoneta. After being re-established in 1760 as "Francis Duchouquet's Trading Post," the British later took over this territory after the French ceded it following defeat in the Seven Years' War. Neither they nor the later Americans (after independence) built a succeeding fort here. French-Canadian traders later reestablished a trading post at the site in 1784, which was abandoned after the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] in 1794.<ref>[https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/oh.html#aug Ohio Forts]</ref>

The city itself was established in the 1780s as a Shawnee settlement called "Waughpaughkonnetta" (possibly derived from the Shawnee word "Wa-po'kanite," meaning "the place of white bones"). After the Shawnee tribe was [[Treaty of Wapakoneta|removed to Kansas]] in 1831, Wapakoneta was platted in 1833 and later named as the seat of [[Auglaize County, Ohio|Auglaize County]] in 1848.<ref>[https://wapakoneta.com/experience-wapakoneta/history/ History -- Wapakoneta Area Chamber of Commerce]</ref>

The [[Armstrong Air & Space Museum]] opened in Wapakoneta in 1972.