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Major General Arthur St. Clair's army camped on the southern margin of Maple Swamp at the headwaters of Twin Creek. One and a half miles west of this site at noon on October 11, 1791 A.D., the marshy condition of the ground forced a delay in the advance until the following afternoon, when the army veered to the northeast and struck a well worn Indian path leading through the prairie and avoiding the wet places. The army gained about five and a half miles that day and camped on bottom land along a small stream, probably near the large spring at the entrance of Wayne Lakes Park. This was the first recorded entrance of a body of white Americans within the confines of Darke County, Ohio. The site lay sixty-two miles from Fort Washington, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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