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Piqua is a city in Miami County, Ohio, United States. The population was 20,522 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. Piqua was one of the cities that experienced severe flooding during the Great Dayton Flood of 1913. ==History== In 1747, Fort Pickawillany was constructed by the British to protect their trading post at a Miami village of the same name. It was located about a mile northeast of the present city of Piqua, at the confluence of Loramie Creek and the Great Miami River. The fort was attacked in 1752 by Charles de Langlade, a Métis war chief, of Ottawa and French Canadian descent. He led more than 240 Ottawa and Ojibwe allied with French forces against the British and the Miami village in the Battle of Pickawillany, resulting in the death of the Miami chief and a British trader. After the battle, the British and Miami abandoned this site. The Miami rebuilt Pickawillany, and Piqua later developed near their village. The British soon took over the area after defeating the French in the Seven Years' War (1754-1763), known in British North America as the French and Indian War. Piqua was settled by European-American colonists as two separate communities in 1780, known as Upper Piqua and Lower Piqua. The two villages united by 1800. Officially incorporated in 1807, Piqua's development was related to the founding of The word 'Piqua' is believed to be derived from a Shawnee language phrase: ''Othath-He-Waugh-Pe-Qua,'' translated as "He has risen from the ashes," related to a legend of the people. It became associated with the ''Pekowi'', one of the five divisions of the Shawnee people, who were eventually known as the Piqua. This local Shawnee history was also the source of the name of the community of Shawnee, founded in 1797 on the east side of the Great Miami River. It is adjacent to the former Pennsylvania Railroad corridor, later used by the merged Penn Central Transportation and subsequently by Conrail. Shawnee has long since been incorporated into Piqua. The Piqua High School Indians athletic teams also took their mascot name from the local Native American history. Rossville (since incorporated into Piqua) was an early local African-American settlement. Virginia planter John Randolph of Roanoke, who served as a US Representative and Senator, arranged for the emancipation of his hundreds of slaves in his will of 1833.〔(Peter Finkelman, "Thomas Jefferson and Anti-Slavery: The Myth Goes On" ), ''Virginia Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 102, No. 2 (April 1994), p. 222, accessed 14 March 2011〕 He also provided money for his executor to relocate the freedmen to the free state of Ohio, and to buy land and supplies to help them establish a settlement. The will was challenged but in 1846, his 383 slaves gained their freedom. Most of these freedmen settled in Rumley, Ohio,〔(David Lodge, "Randolph Slaves Come to Ohio" ), Untitled article, ''Cincinnati Gazette'', 2 July 1846, at Shelby County History, 1998, accessed 15 March 2011〕 but some eventually founded Rossville and an associated cemetery, known as the African Jackson Cemetery.〔(Randolph Settlement/Jackson Cemetery (African) ), Ohio Historical Society, 2008. Accessed 2013-12-20.〕〔Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1002.〕 These are located on the northeast side of the Great Miami River off North County Road 25-A. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piqua, Ohio」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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