Francis Godfroy (1788-1840) was last war chief of the Miami Nation. Owner Mount Pleasant trading post and one of the wealthiest and most influential merchants in the West. Burials in cemetery are restricted to persons of Native American ancestry and . . . — — Map (db m61748) HM
North 87 degrees East 437 feet. War Chief Francis Godfroy's Council Chambers. Here May, 1812, twelve tribes of N.W. Territory voted not to join English. Tecumseh objected and joined Canada. Across road Godfroy's trading post and Mt. Pleasant home, . . . — — Map (db m61139) HM
Jean Baptiste Richardville (1761-1841) was principal chief of the Miami Tribe from 1812 to 1841. He signed six treaties with the United States ceding Miami land in Indiana. This house was built for him under one of the treaties. — — Map (db m63115) HM
Co-owner of American Circus Corporation with Bert Bowers. President of Wabash Valley Building & Loan Association President of Wabash Valley Abstract Company Died January, 29 1930 — — Map (db m240736) HM
( Top - Large Plaque )
Miami County War Dead
World War II
Forever Honour’d - - - Forever Mourn’d
1941 - - - - 1945
( Row One )
Alonzo G. Albert • Russell E. Allen • Ralph E. Anderson • Benjamin E. . . . — — Map (db m44296) WM
“They died that others might live Free”
( Korea )
( Row One )
Edward F. Brakes • Weldon E. Bucher • John M. Cain • Donald A. Day • Everett S. Johnson • Bobby G. Leedy
( Row Two )
Jack H. Lewis . . . — — Map (db m44263) WM
“These heroes are dead.
They died for Liberty - They died for us.
They are at rest.
They sleep in the land they made free.
Under the flag they rendered stainless.
Under the solemn pines.
The sad hemlocks.
The tearful willows.
The . . . — — Map (db m44202) WM
Miami County Indiana Honors Its Women Of World War 1 November 11, 2018 "This war is being fought by women. It is women who suffer and lend courage to us. Women are the ones to whom honor will be due when this war is over, and they will . . . — — Map (db m240731) WM
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
Dedicate this copy of the
Statue of Liberty as a Pledge
of everlasting Fidelity and
Loyalty . . . — — Map (db m44109) HM
Founding member of the National League of Women Voters
Time capsule buried 2022
To be opened in 2072
"I believe women will bring to our body politic an independence of action and clarity of thought unhampered by precedents, . . . — — Map (db m240733) HM
In October 1914, 16 local women met in the Assembly Room of the Peru Public Library to listen to Dr. Amelia Keller, then President of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana, talk about women suffrage.
In the excitement of the moment they . . . — — Map (db m240735) HM
“Greater love hath
no man than this”
Agar, Thomas Agar
Bagshaw, Harry K.
Crites, Ernest A.
Easterday, Lawrence A.
Edgerly, Fred
Flora, Ralph Noah
Gaffrey, Edward Charles
Ginney, John Michael
Harmon, Floyd . . . — — Map (db m44110) HM
Senger Dry Goods Co. circa 1883 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m241005) HM
