Editing Hanover, Indiana (section)

===Logan's Point===
[[Image:View of the Ohio River from Hanover Indiana.jpg|thumb|alt=View of the Ohio River from the Point in Hanover.|left|View of the Ohio River from the Point in Hanover.]]

During the late eighteenth century, the area today known as the state of Indiana was a part of the [[Northwest Territory]] in the new United States. This large area west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River had been ceded by Great Britain after the Revolutionary War. It consisted of the area later organized as the states of [[Ohio]], Indiana, [[Michigan]], [[Illinois]], [[Wisconsin]], and parts of [[Minnesota]]. At that time, there were few European settlements on the northern bank of the Ohio River, although French colonists had settled in the west Illinois Country along the Mississippi River. [[Kentucky]], which developed on the southern banks of the Ohio, was originally considered part of [[Virginia]]. In 1792 it was granted [[U.S. state|statehood]] after becoming more densely settled by European Americans.  Prior to the early nineteenth-century European-American settlement of the Hanover area, its predominant inhabitants were the [[Shawnee people]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.native-languages.org/indiana.htm|title=Indiana Indian Tribes and Languages}}</ref>

George Logan grew up in a farming household in the area of [[Lexington, Kentucky]]. Soon after the turn of the year in 1801, young Logan loaded a barge with produce and embarked on a trading journey westward on the Ohio River, ultimately to sell the produce in [[New Orleans]]. He later noted that there were no European-American settlements in the area between present-day [[Carrollton, Kentucky]] and [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]]. He said both banks of the river were covered in thick forest, and reported seeing Native American hunters and fishermen, numerous [[American bison|buffalo]] and deer, and heard the cries of coyotes.<ref name="Gresham159-161">John M. Gresham Co. ''Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington, Indiana''. Chicago: Chicago Printing Co. (1889) 159-161.</ref>

Faced with severe weather toward the end of February, Logan stopped his river journey, pulling in roughly half a mile west of the present-day area of [[Hanover Beach, Indiana|Hanover Beach]]. After a few days, he went ashore. Armed with a rifle, he climbed a nearby hill to the spot today known as Logan's Point, after him. This was the first recorded instance of a European exploring the area of Hanover. Logan was so enamored with the view from this point that he decided to move there some day. He carved his initials and the date, March 1, 1801, on a beech tree. He did not return to settle for fourteen years.<ref name="Gresham159-161"/>