Allen County, Indiana · 19th century
1810s
14 dated events in 1810s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 14 dated mentions
1810s
- 1810The vanished: bear, panther, bison, elk
James H. Madison's Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana concludes the bison "likely present in every part of Indiana" but concentrated across the southwest, along the Illinois prairie edge and the Buffalo Trace; Hornaday's Smithsonian extermination map, as the Cornell collection describes it, dates Indiana's bison to 1810.
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- 1812Wells rides to Fort Dearborn
On 15 August 1812, a mile and a half from the fort, Potawatomi warriors ambushed the column.
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- 1812The Siege of Fort Wayne
Some 500 Potawatomi and Miami besiege a garrison of about 100 until William Henry Harrison relieves it on 12 September.
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- 1812The Siege of Fort Wayne · the post that held
General Hull surrendered Detroit on 16 August 1812; the Fort Dearborn garrison, evacuating under orders, was destroyed the day William Wells — the fort's own scout turned Indian agent's nephew by capture and adoption — was killed trying to shepherd it out.
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- 1812The bridges, as crossings
Three rivers meant the town was always building bridges: The earliest picture of a Fort Wayne bridge is a woodcut: the state historic bridge survey, quoting Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 , describes "the wooden timber trestle and kingpost bridge across the Maumee directly below the confluence,"…
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- 1812The knife at the parley
The scene: The strangest scene of the 1812 siege of Fort Wayne happened indoors, under a flag of truce, with wine on the table.
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- 1812The rivers' fish: sturgeon water to carp water, and partway back
Crail and Grabarkiewicz's Guide to the Common Fishes of the Toledo Area (2008) records that soldiers stationed at Fort Meigs during the War of 1812 "reported numbers of walleye and sturgeon so thick that thousands could be harvested in a day with a spear or simple fishing pole," and that gristmill dam owners on the…
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- 1812–1912The grave that was lost for a hundred years — and found scattered
Little Turtle died on July 14, 1812, and was buried in a family burial ground near Spy Run Creek. The grave was unmarked, and within a few generations the city had forgotten where it lay.
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- 1816–1841Richardville's system · the reserve strategy
Pinšiwa — Jean Baptiste de Richardville, born about 1761 at Kekionga, son of the French trader Antoine-Joseph Drouet de Richerville and Tacumwah, Pacanne's sister…
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- 1818Francis Comparet's trading house
Founded: Francis Comparet came up the Maumee to Fort Wayne in 1818 as a fur trader and built one of the town's first permanent trading establishments: a brick residence with an adjoining store and trading house on Columbia Street, standing by 1830, and later a warehouse on the canal basin.
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- 1818Francis Comparet — the first store on Columbia Street
Fort Wayne's business record opens with a fur trader: Francis Comparet came up the Maumee to Fort Wayne in 1818 and built one of the town's first permanent trading establishments…
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- 1818–1840The Richardville grants: 28,320 acres, treaty by treaty
The 1818 grants: Article 3 of St. Mary's granted Jean Baptiste Richardville, by patent in fee simple, a schedule of tracts that the Park Service's nomination totals at eleven sections — 7,040 acres.
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- 1818–1850The other reserves on and around this ground
The 1834 treaty, commuting older grants, recites four sections on the Salamonie granted him at St. Mary's in 1818; the 1826 schedule gave him a section on the north side of the Wabash above Richardville's spring tract, with his brother Louison's section above that and Francis Lafontaine's above Louison's…
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- 1819–1840Garrison out, town in
The Army withdraws in 1819; a federal land office follows. The town is platted in 1823 , Allen County is organized in 1824 , Fort Wayne incorporates as a town in 1829 (population ~300) and as a city on 22 February 1840 (population over 2,000).
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