British Victory at Frenchtown

From near this spot on Jan. 22, 1813, 525 British soldiers and Canadian militiamen from Fort Malden under Col. Henry Proctor and some 800 Indians under Chiefs Roundhead and Walk-In-The-Water launched a pre-dawn attack on the sleeping American camp a ...

French Hill

French Hill - The Road to Victory During the American Revolution

Background:

During the American Revolution, the Americans needed the help of the French to secure their hopes of independence. In 178, thanks to the efforts of Ben Franklin and ...

Frenchtown

Top

Town takes its name from the many French families that followed Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, a Swiss refugee from the French Revolution who moved here in 1794.

Bottom

Called "Sunbeam" in 1759. Later Sherrard's Ferry. Present name for Prevost family, refugees from the ...

The First French Fort / The First Playground in Fort Wayne

[Left side of marker]:The First French Fort

The French lived among the Miami at the Three Rivers as early as 1697 when Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (d. 1719), and Francois Marie Bissot de Vincennes, the son of Jean Baptiste ...

The Last Battle of the French and Indian War and Public Memory

[Top half of Marker]

Erected 1898 by the Piqua Chapter,

of the Daughters of the American

Revolution in commemoration of

the last Battle of the French and

Indian War, fought near this spot,

1763.

[Bottom half of Marker]

This monument ...

The French and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Les Français et l’Expedition de Lewis et Clark

Marker Front:

The French-speaking community made a significant contribution to the ultimate success of the epochal Lewis & Clark expedition. The St. Louis Chouteau brothers, fur traders Auguste and Pierre, lodged the ...

Frenchtown Methodist Episcopal Church

Congregation was formed in 1832 and met in a room on Bridge Street. This church erected in 1844 and enlarged in 1861.

Marker is on 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frenchtown World War 1 Monument

Spirit of the American Doughboy

This tablet is erected as a tribute to the men of Frenchtown who served on the Great World War. 1917-1918

Marker is on Harrison Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Frenchtown Railroad

The Belvidere-Delaware Railroad c.1853.

Later leased to the Penn R. R. System, the line allowed transit of Lehigh & Hudson R. R. passenger trains.

Marker is on Bridge Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Massacre of the French

Matanzas Inlet

In 1565 some 300 French castaways, under Jean Ribault, were massacred here by Spaniards, crushing their attempt to occupy Florida. The French ships, sailing from Fort Caroline to attack St. Augustine, were driven ashore by a storm. At this ...