Near this location stood a large Mingo town that was important during the Revolutionary period of the 1770's. Its chief was Te-caugh-ye-te-righ-to, known to settlers as Pluggy, and the village had perhaps 300 inhabitants, including Delaware, Mohawk, Shawnee, Wyandot, and Mingo. People known to have lived here included Mohawk Soloman, the Big Apple Tree, the Stone, Conesseway, Black Wolf, and the Snake, and Chief Logan also lived here for several years. The village contained about twenty dwellings, including long houses and wigwams, as well as one cabin belonging to a blacksmith of French origin. Henry Hamilton, the British commander at Fort Detroit, won the support of Pluggy and his warriors and persuaded them to attack settlers east and south of the Ohio River. Pluggy was killed on January 1, 1777, while leading such an attack on McClellan's Station, Kentucky, and the village moved farther north in 1778.

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington

Photo: Dale K. Benington