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Dayton history jobs9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To be sure, the treaty did not wipe out hostility on the part of individual Indians, some of whom occasionally harassed the Dayton settlement. Anthony Wayne’s victory over the Indians, opened the Miami Valley to peaceful settlement. The Treaty of Greenville in 1795, following Gen. Benjamin Stites, John Stites Gano and William Goforth would have named their community “Venice.” They abandoned their project because of rising Indian hostility and Symmes’ troubles with the federal Government expecting his contract covering the Miami Purchase. ![]() They agreed to buy the site from John Cleves Symmes, sole proprietor of the Miami Purchase, vast tract between the Great Miami and Little Miami rivers. THESE HARDY pioneers were not the first to dream of new dream homes in the Miami Valley, In 1789 the year marking adoption of the federal constitution, three men formed plans to settle at the mouth of the “Tiber,” their name for the Mad River. ![]()
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