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In 1769, Pierre-Louis de Lorimier (Peter Loramie) traveled from Canada to this vicinity to establish fur trading with the local indigenous tribes. This location is a portage between tributaries of the Ohio River and Lake Erie that eased the transport of the quantity of furs in this lucrative trade. His very profitable trading post was located just west of this marker along Loramie Creek. Lorimier’s friendship with the local Shawnee and Delaware tribes, and the British, led him to join them in efforts to curtail the movement of white settlers into the Northwest Territory. In 1782, in an attempt to halt raids along the Ohio River (many of which were formulated at Lorimier’s store), General George Rogers Clark ordered Col. Benjamin Logan to burn Lorimier’s store.