Talk:Logstown

French cabins in 1747
Agnew (1894) states that "As part of their effort to claim the Ohio Valley, around 1747 the French built about 30 log cabins, some with stone chimneys, on a plateau above the original Logstown village." However, I am unable to find Agnew's source for this information, and I suspect it is false. The French did build 30 cabins after Logstown was destroyed in 1754, but there is no source for the 1747 claim, although it is widely repeated throughout the literature. Charles Augustus Hanna, who has a whole chapter devoted to Logstown in The Wilderness Trail (1911), does not repeat this "fact." Celoron de Blainville and Joseph Bonnecamps visited Logstown two years later and don't mention any French cabins, nor do Gist or Weiser, who were there several times. Croghan and Post both refer to cabins the French built after 1755, and I suspect that somewhere along the way there was a typo or a misread date, and that there were no French cabins until then. Can anyone shed light on this? Cmacauley (talk) 05:08, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Primary source documents for Treaty of Logstown
This page has a section explicitly about the Treaty of Logstown. I added links to hard to find primary sources of the treaty: the text, an image of the original document, and the full treaty as printed by Benjamin Franklin. These would be of essential interest to someone trying to learn more about the treaty, which is pretty essential in US history, and they can be difficult to find. Yet these links were deleted. Is there a way to add them that better meets with approval? Thank you! Povipin (talk) 22:19, 20 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Add a section to "Further reading" with the links and biblio information listed as bullet points. Cmacauley (talk) 02:05, 21 April 2022 (UTC)