Fort Finney was a fort built in Oct. 1785 at the mouth of the

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near the modern city of

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and named for Major Walter Finney who built the fort. The site was chosen to be midway between

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and Limestone ( Maysville), two early settlements on the Ohio River. Earlier,

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had commissioned Generals George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler and

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to make a peace treaty with the

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, and a fort was needed to secure the territory. A company under Major Finney was dispatched in fall, 1785 from Fort Pitt to build the fort. The fort was abandoned sometime before the Symmes Purchase in 1788. Today, the site is the coal yard of the

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Treaty of Fort Finney

The Treaty of Fort Finney, also known as the Treaty at the Mouth of the Great Miami, was signed on January 31, 1786 at Fort Finney near modern day Cincinnati between the

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and

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leaders after the

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, ceding parts of the Ohio country to the United States. The treaty was reluctantly signed by the Shawnees, and later renounced by other Shawnee leaders. The Northwest Indian War soon followed. Image:George Rogers Clark.jpg, Treaty Signer Image:Shawnee lang.png, Shawnee distribution around 1755

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