| LC control no. | n 82235405 |
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| Geographic heading | Piqua (Miami County, Ohio) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Ohio--Piqua (Miami County) |
| Variant(s) | Picks Town (Ohio) Piqua Town (Ohio) Piquatown (Ohio) |
| See also | Washington (Miami County, Ohio) |
| Found in | City of Piqua, Ohio: map recto (Piqua) LC data base, 12/21/83 (hdg.: Piqua, Ohio) GNIS, Aug. 5, 2002 (Piqua--PPL, 40°08ʹ41ʺN 84°14ʹ33ʺW, variants: Chillicothe, Lower Piqua, Pickawillany, Picks Town, Piqua Town, Piquatown, Tawixtwi, Washington; Miami County; another Washington (Historical) listed in Monroe County) Its Web site, Aug. 5, 2002 (Piqua; first settlement Pickawillany [also spelled Pickawillainy], est. 1747; destroyed June 21, 1752; Shawnee village Lower Piqua (Chillicothe) began 1780; they [later] named their new town Piqua in honor of their former home on the Mad River about five miles west of Springfield that was destroyed by a large group of frontiersmen and militia) Britannica online, Aug. 5, 2002 (Piqua; city, Miami county, western Ohio; the original Indian village of Piqua near present-day Springfield, was destroyed in 1780; the Indians then moved to the present site, where they established two settlements, Upper and Lower Piqua; in 1794 General Anthony Wayne built Fort Piqua near Upper Piqua; a town called Washington was subsequently laid out on the site in 1807; renamed Piqua in 1816) |
| Geographic area code | n-us-oh |
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