Side A: In 1792, Captain Jacob White claimed land traditionally home to the Shawnee, Delaware (Lenni Lenape), Potawatomi, Miami, Wyandot, Seneca, Chippewa (Ojibwe or Anishinaabeg), Ottawa, and Wapakoneta indigenous nations. Located at the third crossing of Mill Creek, White’s Station, with a blockhouse and six cabins, served as a supply depot to nearby Cincinnati. On October 18, 1793, indigenous groups attacked the settlement in an effort to defend their ancestral lands. During the conflict, five people died: three members of David Flin’s family – Andrew Gobel and two of the Pryer children — as well as a tribal leader and his son whose names were not recorded. Andrew Pryer rushed to Fort Washington 10 miles away and returned with infantrymen who remained while a stockade was built to fortify the settlement.
Side B: Ohio, promised to both White American settlers and to Shawnee, Miami, and other Tribal Nations, became a battleground. Following the creation of the Northwest Territory (1787), an influx of white settlers swelled Cincinnati’s population from 250 (1790) to 14,692 (1800). Ohio’s indigenous peoples tenaciously fought to retain their tribal lands. After General Anthony Wayne camped at White’s Station in 1793, he marched his way north and defeated the United Indian Nations at Fallen Timbers (1794). Within three years of the attack on White’s Station, the 1795 Treaty of Greenville ended the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795), forcing tribal nations to cede large portions of Ohio. This treaty set a national policy to remove all indigenous peoples west of the Mississippi.
