The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . ps Station which was erected on the eastside of the river, a short distance south of the covered bridge, near the presentvillage of Venice, in Butler County. Four men had been out exploring landon the west side of the river, in what is now Ross township, Butler County. They were attacked by the Indians ; one was captured, one killed, theother two escaped, one badly wounded. The attack on the Station was re-pulsed, after a siege of nearly two days and after re-enforcements arrivedfrom Fort Washington. Poor Abner Hunt, the captured man,
The centennial anniversary of the city of Hamilton, Ohio . ps Station which was erected on the eastside of the river, a short distance south of the covered bridge, near the presentvillage of Venice, in Butler County. Four men had been out exploring landon the west side of the river, in what is now Ross township, Butler County. They were attacked by the Indians ; one was captured, one killed, theother two escaped, one badly wounded. The attack on the Station was re-pulsed, after a siege of nearly two days and after re-enforcements arrivedfrom Fort Washington. Poor Abner Hunt, the captured man, was tied to asapling about which the Indians built a fire and roasted him to death, in fullview and hearing of the garrison who were unable to render him any assist-ance. It was one of the most cruel of the many cruel acts of the savage In-dians, and, with other similar acts of the Indians finally aroused the govern-ment to the necessity of punishing these perpetrators of such savagery. The territory embraced within the present state of Ohio was regarded. GEN. SAMUEL F. GARY, THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF HAMILTON, O. H by the Indians as the most beautiful and bountiful land they possessed, particularly all that portion drained by the Great Miami river and its the site of the present city of Piqua was a large and populous Indian vil-lage, called Picklawinny; while surrounding it in every direction, along theSciota, the Maumee, the Muskingum and other streams, was a dense Indianpopulation, extending to and along the Wabash, St. Joseph and other streamsin the present state of Indiana. All this was the paradsie of the Indianhunter ; to the villages in this territory he returned from his hunting expidi-tions and forays on the white settlements. To these villages many a poorwhite prisoner was carried to be tortured at the stake for the gratification ofhis .savage captors. The Great Miami river was one of the most usuallyadopted highways for the Indian raids into Kentu
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