While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
A complete listing of all the Indian
villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of
Mexico.
Gekelemukpechuenk. A Delaware village in Ohio in
1770-73 and the residence of Netawatwees, the principal chief of the tribe.
Perhaps identical with White Eyes town. It was abandoned in 1773 or 1774, the
inhabitants removing to Coshocton, on the E. side of the Muskingum, which
Netawatwees henceforth made his chief residence. Loskiel, Missions, 1794.
Girty's Town. A Shawnee village in 1795 on St Marys r.,
E. of Celina reservoir, Auglaize co, Ohio. It took its name from Simon Girty, an
Indian trader living with the Shawnee. (J. M.)
Grapevine Town. A former village, per haps belonging to
the Delawares, situated 8 m. up Captina cr., Belmont co., Ohio. Washington
(1770) in Rupp, West Pa., app., 397, 1846.
Greentown. A former Delaware village on the Black fork
of Mohican r., near the boundary of Richland and Ashland cos., Ohio. See
Treaty of Maumee Rapids (1817) in U. S. Ind. Treat., 204, 1873; Royce
in 18th Rep. B. A. E., Ohio map, 1899.
Grenadier Squaw's Town. A Shawnee village situated in
1774 on Scippo cr., Pick-away co., Ohio. The name was derived from Grenadier
Squaw, a sister of Corn stalk, the Shawnee chief, who made this her home. (J. M.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
