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Shawnee County is located in the northeastern part of Kansas, in the third tier of counties west of the Missouri River and about fifty-four miles south of Nebraska.
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Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, Missouri's Iron County and the maples of Hiawatha, Kan. should be at their best in mid-October.
Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.
* Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka, Kansas, 1995
The area of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma was used to resettle the Iowa tribe, Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes.
* Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, in Topeka, Kansas
By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnee, an Algonquian tribe, were the primary tribe of Native Americans living in what would become Athens County.
In that year, a British missionary visited the Shawnee villages on the Scioto River and recorded the location of Blue Jacket's Town on Deer Creek ( present Ross County, Ohio ).
In 1792 the European-American pioneer John Hardin was killed by the Shawnee in Shelby County.
In 1724, John Wright, an English Quaker, traveled to the Columbia area ( then a part of Chester County ) to explore the land and proselytize to a Native American tribe, the Shawnee, who had established a settlement along Shawnee Creek.
Prior to the arrival of European settlers around 1740, Greenbrier County, like most of West Virginia, was used as a hunting grounds by the Shawnee and Cherokee Nations.
Shawnee chief Keigh-tugh-qua, also known as Cornstalk, led similar attacks on western Virginia settlements, starting with attacks in present-day Greenbrier County and extending northward to Berkeley Springs, and into the northern Shenandoah Valley.
Pottawatomie County is part of the Shawnee Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Oklahoma City – Shawnee Combined Statistical Area.
After the Civil War, the Creek and Seminole were forced to cede their lands back to the federal government, and the area of Pottawatomie County was used to resettle the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Absentee Shawnee, Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes.
In 1831, the Federal Government reacquired part of what would eventually become Ottawa County to resettle some smaller tribes, These included two tribes of Seneca, Shawnee, Quapaw, Peoria, Kaskaskias, Miami, Ottawa and Wyandotte.
He commenced practice in Topeka and served as prosecuting attorney of Shawnee County, Kansas from 1885 to 1889.
Many parts of Scioto County are heavily forested, especially in the western half of the county with Shawnee State Park.
Shawnee State Forest and Park, the state's largest with over, covers most of western Scioto County, and Brush Creek State Park touches part of northwestern Scioto County.
The first inhabitants of what is now Perry County were Native Americans of the Shawnee tribe.
* Shawnee County ( east )
Shawnee County ( county code SN ) is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States of America.
2005 Kansas Department of Transportation | KDOT Map of Shawnee County (: File: Kansas official transportation map legend. png | map legend )
Map of Shawnee County from History of Kansas, 1899
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* 1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis ( 1825 ) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
Bearing this proviso in mind it is still possible to sum up the New Wave in terms of rupture as is done for example by Darren Harris-Fain of Shawnee State University:
* October 10 – Dunmore's War – Battle of Point Pleasant: Cornstalk is forced to make peace with Dunmore at the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, ceding Shawnee land claims south of the Ohio ( modern Kentucky ) to Virginia.
The DNA from the two families did not match, and so the study concluded that the famous Shawnee war chief was in fact a Native American and that the popular story surrounding his relatedness to Dutch settlers is without merit.
The route is an easy way to reach Shawnee National Forest in the southern tip of the state.
Its county seat is Shawnee.
Under the terms of this treaty, the Shawnee tribe was assigned reservations at Wapakonetta and at their " Hog Creek " settlement along the Ottawa River which comprised most of what is the present-day Shawnee Township.
Under the terms of this treaty, the Shawnee tribe was assigned reservations at Wapakonetta and at their " Hog Creek " settlement along the Ottawa River which comprised most of what is the present-day Shawnee Township.
Lorimier's willingness to place German Reformed settlers west of Cape Girardeau is somewhat perplexing given his earlier role in placing a group of Shawnee settlers in that same location.
This treaty, whose first signatory was William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition fame, required that the Shawnee move to what is now known as Shawnee Mission, Kansas, on land that had previously belonged to the Osage tribes.
* This Henry Schoolcraft neologism is thought to be derived from a Native American word meaning " man "— from the Delaware " leno or lenno " or the Shawnee " lenawai.
Concerning the origin of the names in this county, it is generally understood that Shawnee County receives its name from that well known tribe of Indians.
The county along with Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, and Wabaunsee counties is included in the Topeka, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county along with Shawnee, Jackson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties is included in the Topeka, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county along with Shawnee, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties is included in the Topeka, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Saline County area is mostly rolling hills throughout gradually rising to the Hills of the Shawnee National Forest.
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* Lake Shawnee located in southeast Topeka offers playgrounds, a swimming beach, trails, an 18-hole golf course and campgrounds among other amenities.
Ridgway is located in Southern Illinois at ( 37. 798036 ,-88. 260571 )., north of Shawnee National Forest.
Cobden is located near the crest of the Shawnee Hills.
Creal Springs is located in southeastern Williamson County, on the north slope of the Shawnee Hills.
Shawnee is a city located in northwest Johnson County, Kansas, United States and is a western suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.
Shawnee is located at ( 39. 012767 ,-94. 765818 ).
Old Shawnee Town Museum, Wonderscope Children's Museum, and the Johnson County Museum are also located within the city.
Although Ellis Park is located on the Indiana side of the Ohio river, by an oddity of history, the land from Waterworks and Shawnee roads in Evansville south to the Ohio River are part of Henderson County.
The name " Chillicothe " is Shawnee for " big town ", and was named after their Chillicothe, located since 1774 about a mile from the present-day city.
Fort Shawnee is located at ( 40. 681750 ,-84. 139297 ).
An " antenna farm " visible from Interstate 75 can be seen looking east which includes a cell phone tower, the transmitting towers of WFGF-FM and WIMT-FM, along with WIMA ( AM ) located to the north in neighboring Fort Shawnee.
It is located about halfway between the cities of Lima and Wapakoneta and is adjacent to the village of Fort Shawnee in Allen County.
Shawnee Hills is located at ( 40. 159366 ,-83. 133213 ).
Shawnee Hills is located at ( 39. 652340 ,-83. 779165 ).
Shawnee is located at ( 39. 604861 ,-82. 210185 ).
Shawnee is located at ( 35. 342474 ,-96. 933775 ).
Benson Park was located approximately midway between Shawnee and Tecumseh, and served the recreational needs of Shawnee residents for most of 30 years.
The City of Shawnee maintains Shawnee Twin Lakes, which are located the west of the city.
Below the hills, the flat lands are formed in the shape of a frying pan, the pan being the Shawnee flats, once the center of the town's agricultural activities, and the handle being a spit of narrow land extending east from the flats, where the center of town is located.
The building is located on Shawnee Avenue, only a short distance from the busiest section of that town, it being about 1, 300 feet from the Pioneer and Wyoming Valley knitting mills and Shawnee box factory.
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