Established in 1808 by Tecumseh and the Prophet as the capital of their pan-Indian confederacy, Prophet’s Town became a place where representatives of many midwestern Indian nations met and lived in an effort to build the greatest Indian resistance movement in American history. Led by Tecumseh, it served as a training ground for over one thousand warriors and extended for two miles along this bluff. The Battle of Tippecanoe on November 7, 1811, crushed the confederacy, and Harrison’s army burned the town the following day.
