General Harmar's Trace through warren county

[kozyman2]

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.asp?fname=Troy14nw.jpg&state=OH Try this look just south of the Shelby county, Miami county line to where the creek and the river meet. Thats the spot

[OhioCoinHunter]

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.asp?fname=Troy14nw.jpg&state=OH Try this look just south of the Shelby county, Miami county line to where the creek and the river meet. Thats the spot

Yup, that's the spot I found on bing.com under maps. If you go there and keep zooming in on the map it will turn into a photo. There are fields all around the mouth of the Loramie where it branches off the Great Miami.

[OhioCoinHunter]

Here's something else of interest concerning the mouth of the Loramie Creek:

History of the Area

Preceding the French and Indian War of 1754-1763, the Miami village called Pickawillany became prominent in this area • Over 400 Indian families lived here and it became the principal headquarters of the Miami Confederacy before being destroyed by the French in 1752 because the Miami Indians sided with the British

Lake Loramie derived its name from the famous French-Canadian trader, Peter Loramie, who in 1769 established a trading post at the mouth of Loramie Creek near the west end of what is now Loramie Reservoir • Loramie first came to the area as a Jesuit priest to minister to the Wyandot and Shawnee Indians

Loramie's store became the center of Indian mischief against the settlers, and Loramie became a bitter enemy of the Americans • General George Rogers Clark destroyed the post and a nearby Indian village in 1782 during an expedition in the Miami valley • Loramie emigrated west with a band of Shawnee shortly afterwards • In 1794, General "Mad" Anthony Wayne built a fort on the former trading post site.

Lake Loramie was originally constructed in 1844-45 as a storage reservoir to supply water for the Miami-Erie Canal system • A short feeder canal connected Lake Loramie with the main canal which furnished transportation from the Ohio River at Cincinnati north to Lake Erie • The canal system reached its peak of economic importance in the mid-1800s • Eventually, the advent of the railroads and destruction caused by the floods of 1913 forced the abandonment of the canals in that year

Since that time, Lake Loramie and other canal lands became recognized for their potential to serve increasing outdoor recreational needs • In 1949, Lake Loramie became the possession of the newly created Division of Parks and Recreation of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and has been maintained as a state park since

The above info came from: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/lklora ... fault.aspx

[kozyman2]

I'm there when Spring gets here, just bout 1hr from home at the most.

[joecoin]

Always keep in mind, the course of a river will change with time. What is the mouth of the Loramie today most likely is not in the same spot as it was back then.

[kozyman2]

I have a map from 1904, looks pretty much the same, with the exception of more farmland. Thanks for the heads up