

The soldiers, in a slow slog north, cut a road in a wide swath through virgin forest. The autumn foray would become a march to massacre. Army set out from a freshly built Fort Hamilton (named to honor Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton) and nested on a bench of land above the Great Miami River. In October 1791, the entirety of the U.S.

Its placid form and lyrical name belie the fact it was born from warfare.

It bumps into glacial moraines and purls through pastoral farmsteads on its downhill destiny with the Great Miami River - by which time it has become a substantial stream. Four Mile Creek, for example, rises in the uplands along the Indiana-Ohio state line, picking up the waters of small rills and runs and seeps.
