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Wapakoneta (/ ˌ w ɔː p ə k ə ˈ n ɛ t ə /, locally / w ɒ p ə k ə ˈ n ɛ t ə /) (commonly shortened to “Wapak”) is a city in and the county seat of Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. [4]
The Treaty of Wapakoneta was signed on August 8, 1831. Remnants of the Shawnee Native American tribe in Wapakoneta were forced to relinquish claims that they had to land in western Ohio . In exchange, the United States government agreed to provide the tribe with 100,000 acres (400 km 2 ) of land west of the Mississippi River .
Auglaize County (/ ˈ ɔː ɡ l eɪ z /) [2] is a county in Northwestern Ohio, United States of America . As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,442. [3] Its county seat and largest city is Wapakoneta. [4] Auglaize County comprises the Wapakoneta Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Lima-Van Wert-Celina Combined ...
Ohio St. (State Route 67) east of its junction with Main St. Uniopolis: 22: Wapakoneta Commercial Historic District: Wapakoneta Commercial Historic District: January 5, 1989 : Roughly bounded by Auglaize, Park, Main, and Blackhoof Sts.
On July 8, 2010, the Charles Wintzer Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, [1] primarily because of its well-preserved historic architecture. In nominating the building for inclusion on the Register, the Ohio Historical Society concentrated on its place as an example of late nineteenth-century German architecture and on its combination of residential and industrial ...
Wakatomika was the name of two 18th century Shawnee villages in what is now the U.S. state of Ohio.The name was also spelled Wapatomica, Waketomika, Waketomica, and Waketameki, among other variations, but the similar name Wapakoneta was a different Shawnee village.
The Armstrong Air & Space Museum is a museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the hometown of aviator and astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon.Opened in 1972, the museum chronicles Ohio's contributions to the history of aeronautics and space flight.
One of Wapakoneta's earliest physicians, John H. Nichols designed his two-story, seventeen-room house in the plan of a cross, patterning it after a house in Virginia with which he was familiar. [3] The house's brick walls rest on a foundation of limestone and are covered with a tin roof, and elements of wood and limestone are prominent on the ...