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beautiful location it is for either Indian or white man. On one of the 

 eminences overlooking Buck creek and the valley, on the farm of 

 John W. Baldwin, have been discovered human bones buried at con- 

 siderable depth, which from the method with which they were buried 

 and the appearance of the face bones, indicate that they may have 

 belonged to, and probably did belong to, a race of people long anterior 

 to the Indian. Excavations made at considerable depth on the farm 

 of Joseph Townsend, along Kings creek, have revealed human bones 

 that must have belonged to the Indian or an earlier race of people. 

 Like discoveries have also been made on the farm known as the Judge 

 Dallas farm, south of Urbana 3 or 4 miles. Kings creek took its 

 name from the tragic death of an Indian chief upon its bank. He 

 was shot one-fourth of a mile below where Kingston mills now are. It 

 occurred in 1786, during the march of Boone and Kenton with Gren. 

 Logan against the Mad river towns. A portion of the army on horse- 

 back, marching up the valley and along near where John Eicholtz 

 now lives, encountered a few Indians. The Indians being headed off 

 from the hills and woods on the east were pursued to the high grass 

 on the bank of the creek, where one of them jumped to his feet, aimed 

 at one of his Kentucky pursuers, but his gun missed fire and the 

 Kentuckian shot and killed him. From his dress and appearance he 

 was supposed to be a King, hence and from that Kings creek took its 

 name. 



The Mac-a-cheek towns, ten or twelve miles north of Urbana, were 

 the headquarters of vai'ious tribes. It was to these towns that Col. 

 Crawford, the friend and companion of Washington in earlier days, 

 who commanded the unfortunate expedition against the Sandusky 

 towns in 1782, was brought a prisoner, and from which he was after- 

 wards returned to the Sandusky towns and tortured to death with a 

 cruelty so atrocious and fiendish as to excite Washington to tears and 

 stir the hot blood of men everywhere to a desire tor revenge. 



The State of Ohio was admitted into the Union in 1802. Cham- 

 paign county was established as a county in the year 1805; and the 

 town of Urbana was laid in the same year, 1805. Montgomery and 

 Greene counties were established in 1803 and each taken from Hamil- 

 ton and Ross counties. By the Act of the Legislature passed Feb. 

 20, 1805, the boundaries of Champaign county were fixed as follows: 

 Beginning where the range line between the 8th and 9th ranges 



