up by the
English, came here soon after to negotiate the famous treaty of
Greenville with the Indians in 1795. He died in 1796 at Erie.

[Illustration: Old Block House At Erie

(From a Painting by Dr. Thomas B. Stuart)

Certain hostile tribes in northwest of Ohio who had defeated Gen.
St. Clair in 1791, sent away in scorn a mission asking permission
for white men to settle beyond the Ohio (1793). Wayne, angry at
this insolence, gathered together some troops of the recently
organized American army and after having given the Indians one
more chance of a peaceable settlement, defeated them thoroughly
in the battle of Fallen Timbers, 80 miles north of Cincinnati. By
the resulting treaty of Greenville, he opened up the northwest to
civilization.]

In spite of the necessary severity of the punishment meted out to the
Indians by the new government through the agency of Wayne, no part of
Washington's administration, domestic or foreign, was more original or
more benign than the policy he constantly urged toward them. To save
them from the frauds of traders a national system of trade was adopted,
and a number of laws were passed to protect them from the aggressions of
borderers, as well as to secure them in the rights allowed them in their
treaties.

The battle of Lake Erie (1813) was closely associated with the city.
Here were Perry's headquarters during the War of 1812, and here he built
in less than six months many of the vessels with which he won his naval
victory over the British.

Erie is now an important manufacturing centre, the products of which are
valued at between $40,000,000 and $50,000,000. A large branch of the
General Electric Co. is here, besides important factories for flour and
grist mill products, paper and wood pulp, organs, petroleum, etc. The
leading articles of shipment are lumber, coal, grain and iron ore. Over
1,400 ships a year enter and clear the broad, landlocked harbour. On a
bluff overlooking lake and city, is the State Soldiers' and Sailors'
Home, and nearby, a monument to Gen. Wayne. Between Springfield (577 M.)
and Conneaut we cross the state line into Ohio.

584 M. CONNEAUT, Pop. 9,000. (Train 3 passes 10:08p; No. 41, 2:39a; No.
25, 2:04a; No. 19, 6:34a. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 8:50p; No. 26, 9:59p;
No. 16, 1:20a; No. 22, 4:32a.)

The first permanent settlement was made here in 1799 though a
preliminary surveying party composed of Moses Cl