Editing Piqua, Ohio (section)

===Modern settlement and incorporation===
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The first European settlers arrived in 1798, after the signing of the [[Treaty of Greenville]] ending the [[Northwest Indian War]] and opening much of Ohio to settlement.  In 1807 the village, consisting of seven houses, was surveyed by Armstrong Brandon, a soldier under Gen. Anthony Wayne, and named Washington. It was about a mile southwest of the old Indian villages of Piqua.

By 1816, the Shawnee village of Piqua had been long abandoned; the state legislature, acting on citizen petition, changed the name of Washington village to Piqua. Piqua was incorporated as a town by the Ohio General Assembly in 1823.

During the [[War of 1812]], Piqua was a waystation for men and supplies moving north.  In 1819, a land office was established in Piqua which facilitated its growth.

Piqua developed along with construction of the [[Miami and Erie Canal]] between 1825 and 1845.