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My favorite time of the year.

This area was once the location of the Indian tribe of Five Medals. Below is a little bit of information on them, they do re-enactments yearly just a few miles from this spot.

The Elkhart River Potawatomi first settled in the area before the American Revolution during the 1760s. Their settlement was located near the reenactment site and was called Five Medals Town, named after their community leader Chief Five Medals. The town was active in the fur trade and was frequently visited by European and American fur traders. During the War of 1812, young warriors from the town allied with Tecumseh and the British. Soldiers from Ohio and Kentucky destroyed the town twice during the conflict. Historic records indicate that Five Medals town contained some twenty homes situated along an extensive prairie and was surrounded by approximately seventy acres of corn. By 1828, as Americans settled the prairie, the town was vacated and its residents forced west where they merged with different tribal groups.

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