The Treaty of Greeneville created the Greeneville Treaty Line, the boundary between lands in the original possession of the Indians and lands south and east of the boundary that they ceded to the United States. Major General "Mad" Anthony Wayne negotiated the treaty with the tribes his army had defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794. Leaders of 12 tribes, including Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees, Ottawas, and Miamis, signed the Treaty of Greeneville on August 3, 1795 with General Wayne, William Henry Harrison, and other representatives of the United States. Later treaties through the Treaty with the Miamis in 1818 extinguished the various tribes' original claims and created Indian reservations on lands northwest of the Greeneville Treaty Line, making the line obsolete. Civil engineer and historian C.E. Sherman called it "the most striking survey line in Ohio." The portion through Union County began at the Tuscarawas River near Fort Laurens in what is now northern Tuscarawas County and ran south and west about 153 miles near what is now Fort Loramie in northwestern Shelby County. U.S. Surveyor General Rufus Putnam hired Israel Ludlow to survey the line, and he completed the work in July-August 1797. In Union County, part of Treaty Line Road and all of Boundary Road follow the line, which also marks the boundaries between Washington and York Townships and Jackson and Claibourne Townships.