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That site, now the Fallen Timbers State Memorial, is about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) south of the actual battlefield, which was identified in 1995, and much of which is now preserved as part of the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site along with Fort Miami.
Memorial Drive runs through the park, heading east to downtown Houston and west to the 610 Loop. A small portion of land west of the 610 Loop bordered by Woodway Drive and Buffalo Bayou is also part of the park. I-10/U.S. 90 borders the park to the north. The park was originally designed by landscape architects Hare & Hare of Kansas City, Missouri.
The Legion of the United States makes contact with the Western Confederacy on 20 August 1794. Fallen Timbers Battle [22]. Captain William Wells, Little Turtle's son-in-law and the commander of Wayne's intelligence company, was wounded along with some of his spies after they were identified spying in a Native American camp the night of 11 August. [23]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
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The battle site was named "Fallen Timbers" because a tornado had knocked down a large number of trees there. [2] The United States Post Office Department issued a stamp in 1929 paying tribute to the American victory that featured the image of the monument on it. The Fallen Timbers Battlefield was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960. [3]
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Big Bottom, named for the broad Muskingum River Flood Plain, this park is the site of an attack on an Ohio Company settlement by Delaware and Wyandot Indians on Jan 2, 1791. The Big Bottom Massacre marked the outbreak [ 10 ] of four years of frontier warfare in Ohio, which only stopped when General Anthony Wayne and the Indian Tribes signed the ...