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Big Bottom 1790 MASSACRE SITE

Big Bottom State Memorial Park Cemetery
Morgan County,
Ohio

Big Bottom
Named for the broad Muskingum River flood plain, this park is the site of an attack on an Ohio Company settlement by Delaware and Wyandot indians on January 2, 1791. The Big Bottom massacre marked the outbreak of four years of frontier warfare in Ohio, which only stopped when General Anthony Wayne and the Indian Tribes signed the Treaty of Greenville
Stockport, Morgan Co., OH

Contributed on 1/7/07 by triciashumate
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Submitted: 1/7/07 • Approved: 1/7/07 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R12449-G12448-S3

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