Historic Driving Tour of Miami County, Indiana
  

Osage Rock / Village
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Cross bridge, turn E. on U.S. 124 - turn right S. on road 300E.  Sites 2 & 3 on right side of road.

2.  OSAGE ROCK/OSAGE VILLAGE - Osage village was one of the largest and most important Miami villages along the Upper Wabash River drainage.  In 1813, Col. J. Campbell and his soldiers destroyed Osage Village.  Upon the hill just south of the Richardville house stands Osage Rock with a brass plaque that reads: "Around a council fire at this place on May 15, 1812, Tecumseh assembled 12 Great Tribes who refused his confederacy against the Whites."

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