Language Translation
  Close Menu

Indian School


Location: US 24, near Huntington / Wabash County line (Huntington County, Indiana)

Marker No Longer Standing

Installed: Erected by Huntington County Rural Youth Club

ID#: 35.1950.1

Text


Site of first Indian agricultural school in West, established 1804 by Philip Dennis for the Society of Friends, at the request of Chiefs Little Turtle and Five Medals. Destroyed 1812. Later site of Indian trade.

Keywords


American Indian, education