Logstown
Maughwawame | |
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Historic Native American village | |
 The stone marker at or near the former site of Logstown (1725-1758) | |
| Etymology: Unami: maughwawame "extensive flats"[1]: 356 | |
 Location in Beaver County and state of Pennsylvania | |
.svg) Location of Pennsylvania in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 40°37′23″N 80°13′36″W / 40.622942°N 80.226675°W | |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| Present-day Community | Harmony Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania |
| Founded | 1725-1727 |
| Demolished | June, 1754 |
| Rebuilt | 1755-58 |
| Abandoned | November 1758 |
| Population | |
| • Estimate (1754) | 200−500 |
The riverside village of Logstown (1725?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue[1]: 356 (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the Colony of Virginia, and the Six Nations, which occupied the region. Being an unusually large settlement, and because of its strategic location in the Ohio Country, an area contested by France and England, Logstown was an important community for all parties living along the Ohio and tributary rivers. Logstown was a prominent trade and council site for the contending British and French colonial governments, both of which made abortive plans to construct forts near the town.[2] Logstown was burned in 1754 and although it was rebuilt, in the years following the French and Indian War it became depopulated and was eventually abandoned.
- ^ a b Charles Augustus Hanna, The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path, Volume 1, Putnam's sons, 1911
- ^ Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 Cambridge studies in North American Indian history, Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 1139495682
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