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Tassinong is an unincorporated rural community in Porter County, Indiana, south of the city of Valparaiso. The community includes an historic marker claiming to be a French mission and trading post in 1673, making it the oldest European settlement in Indiana as well as neighboring Illinois. ==History== The first use of the word Tassinong appears in 1830, referring to a village of Potawatomi Indians.〔Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History; Civilization of the American Indian Series; Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Cartography by Miklos Pinther; University of Oklahoma Press; Norman, Oklahoma, 1986; Pg 134;〕 The earlier existence of an Indian village and a French trading posts are identified by an historic marker in Tassinong. (See Controversy below.) The earliest presence of Europeans in the Porter County area is in 1679 when Sieur de La Salle passed down the Kankakee River, to the south.〔Nouvelle Devourverte d’un Pays plus grands que l’Europe situé dans l’Amérique. Louis Hennepin (Franciscan Recollect) Pg 113 of Bartlett (1899)〕 At that time, the area south of Lake Michigan was embroiled in the Beaver Wars, which began in the Iroquois lands of New York in 1638. Iroquois war parties had destroyed the Erie Nation by 1656 〔Wallace, Paul A. W. (1961; 2nd edition, 2007). Indians in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Diane Publishing Inc.〕 and had moved west into the western Great Lakes by 1670 〔Barr, Daniel P (2006). Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-98466-4.〕 In 1689, the Miami, with aid from the Anishinaabe Confederacy (Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwa) defeated Iroquois near modern South Bend.〔Jennings, Francis (1984). The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-01719-2.〕 That begins are return migration of Potawatomi peoples to the lands around the St. Joseph River with over 200 warriors and their families to the St. Joseph valley by 1695.〔Archives des Colonies, Paris. Cited by W. V. Kinietz, The Indians of the Western Great Lakes, 1615-1760, 309〕 The arrival of a settlement occurred in 1834, four years existence of a Potawatomi village. The village may have taken its name from the nearby woodlands, ''Tassinong Grove''. A post office began operations at Tassinong Grove on April 10, 1838.〔Baker, J. David. 1976. The Postal History of Indiana, Volume 2. Louisville, Kentucky: Leonard H. Hartmann. 1,061 p. (p. 1,035 )〕 Tassinong Grove was located south of the community of Tassinong.〔Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Lake and Porter, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey and Company. 177 pgs; Chapt 8, pg 188〕 By 1846, the community and post office had moved north to the location where the Baum’s Bridge Road, joined the road to Valparaiso, modern State Route 49. In that year, several businesses are listed, including two stores, two blacksmiths, a carpenter, a tavern and a shoemaker. A church was built in 1855 by the Presbyterians.〔Ball, Timothy H.; Northwestern Indiana From 1800 to 1900: A View of Our Region Through the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, Illinois: Donohue & Henneberry; 1900; 570 p. (p. 322–323 )〕 The decline of the village began in 1865 when the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louise Railroad was built through Kouts, to the south.〔Plaque to Point Out Where Tassinong Once Flourished, The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana; July 21, 1959 pg 4-5〕 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「Tassinong, Indiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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