ABOUT US Toledo is the fourth largest city in Ohio, but lacks a comprehensive history museum. There are a numbe of one-dimensional neighborhood museums representing specific development, whereas our vision encompasses the greater Toledo metropolitan area from the days when both Native Americans and settlers struggled to keep their land or begin a homestead with an eye on the future. French trading posts operated in the area along the Maumee River around 1680 and American settlers arrived following the Battle of Fallen Timbers (now known as Sidecut Metropark) on August 20, 1794, involving a confederation of eight Native American tribes against the Legion of America led by Major General Anthony Wayne, (appointed by President George Washington) whose forces won; the result opening land westward upon which five states were established. The Treaty of Fort Greenville on August 3, 1795 administered in southern (now Greenville) Ohio ended the Northwest Indian wars in Ohio.   The Treaty of Fort Industry was signed on July 4, 1805 by seven tribes including the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Pottawatomi, and Shawnee. They relinquished one-half million acres south of Lake Erie and west of the Cuyahoga River in northeastern Ohio. This land was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. These tribes kept the right to hunt and fish on the land.   Many settlers fled the area during the War of 1812 with resettlement beginning around 1817 when a Cincinnati syndicate purchased a 974-acre tract, naming it Port Lawrence at the mouth of Swan Creek along the Maumee River, creating the downtown area. Another syndicate founded the town of Vistula immediately to its north becoming the historic north end. Cherry Street divided the two which is why present-day streets on the northeast side of Cherry Street run at a slightly different angle from those to the southwest.