Editing Connersville, Indiana (section)

===Conner's Post===
John Conner, his brother William, and others arrived in the Whitewater Valley from south central Ohio in 1802, establishing a fur trading post in an unpopulated area near what was later to become [[Cedar Grove, Indiana|Cedar Grove]] on the Whitewater River (Franklin County) at the very fringe of the European penetration into the wilderness of Indiana. By 1808, as a result of reduction of Indian hunting grounds by treaty, the trading post, known as "Conner's Post", had been relocated {{convert|20|mi}} north at the Whitewater River junction with an Indian trail between the Ohio River {{convert|70|mi}} to the southeast and hunting grounds to the north. According to research by J. L. Heineman, the trading post was located in the middle of what is now Eastern Avenue, at the west end of Charles Street. At that time, the region was inhabited by [[Delaware Indians]]. In 1809, the [[Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)|Treaty of Fort Wayne]] was signed, by the terms of which the land locally known as the "Twelve Mile Purchase" was ceded by the Indians to the government. This tract included a strip {{convert|12|mi|spell=in}} in width lying west of the 1795 [[Treaty of Greenville|Greenville treaty]] line that ran from the midpoint of the Indiana/Ohio border southwest to the Ohio River, cutting off a thin wedge of southeastern Indiana. The strip included most of Fayette County except the extreme northern portion (part of the later "[[New Purchase (1818)|New Purchase]]"). Sales of public land by the United States government in Indiana began in 1801. In that year the Cincinnati, Ohio, Land Office began selling land in a wedge of government land in southeastern Indiana known as the "Gore" (organized as [[Dearborn County, Indiana|Dearborn County]] in 1803) which included all of what became Fayette County. Conner obtained title to his plat in 1811.