The Johnston Farm and Indian Agency is a 200-acre farm located at North Hardin Street. Tour the Johnston Farm and Indian Agency Laura McKenzie Waters, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons To know more, here’s a list of interesting places and the best things to do in Piqua, Ohio: Piqua is currently a small city with a traditional American lifestyle, as well as many of the cultural amenities of a larger city, including a good number of attractions, museums, and events in and around the area.
Piqua earned the name “The Atomic City” as it owned the first nuclear power plant operated municipally from 1962 to 1966.
The word 'Piqua' is thought to have originated from a Shawnee language phrase: Othath-He-Waugh-Pe-Qua, which means "He has risen from the ashes," according to the local legend. Piqua settled as two separate villages in 1780 and was occupied by the Shawnee tribe, a North American group of people originally from the east after several wars broke out, such as the Battle of Pickawillany, the French and Indian War, the Battle of Piqua, and the Northwest Indian War.Įuropean settlers arrived in 1798 after the end of the Northwest Indian War, and by 1807 the village was named Washington, which later changed to Piqua in 1816. Piqua, a small city in Miami County located north of Dayton, Ohio, began as an important trade center and settlement for Native Americans.Įstablished in 1807, Piqua’s history dates back much longer to 1749 to an earlier settlement called Fort Pickawillany, where Piqua was developed nearby in the following years.
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