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History of Evansville, Indiana : ウィキペディア英語版 | History of Evansville, Indiana The history of Evansville, Indiana spans hundreds of years, with thousands of years of human habitation. The area's geography and location on a bend in the Ohio River attracted people from the earliest times. The city was founded in 1812 and was named by its founder, Hugh McGary, after Col. Robert M. Evans. Because of its position on the river and surrounding natural resources, Evansville grew to become a commercial, industrial and financial hub for the tri-state area. == Pre-Anglo-American settlement history ==
There was a continuous human presence in the area that became Evansville from at least 8,000 BCE.〔Silverberg, Robert. ''Mound Builders of Ancient America: The Archaeology of a Myth''. Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1968, p. 322.〕 Archaeologists have identified several archaic and ancient sites in and near Evansville. The most complex sites existed at Angel Mounds from about 900 A.D. to about 1600 A.D., just before the appearance of Europeans. These Native Americans were called "Mound Builders" of the Mississippian culture. These mound builders were advanced hunters and gatherers who built their villages on high ground near rivers. No one knows why the Angel Mounds civilization declined, but scholars have speculated that an extended regional drought or over-hunting may have been contributing factors. Archaeologists theorize that with the collapse of the chiefdom by 1450, many of the Angel people had relocated downriver to the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers. Groups of Shawnee, Miami, and other tribes moved into this area about 1650 AD.〔Trigger, Bruce G. vol. ed. ''Handbook of North American Indiana. Vol 15''. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 1978, pp. 550-568.〕 By the time European settlers arrived a group of Shawnee were still living on the banks of Pigeon Creek where it flowed into the Ohio River in present-day Evansville.
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