Prophetstown

City: Prophetstown

State: Indiana Territory

Lat/Long: 40.5000, -86.8333

Prophetstown was the name of a Shawnee village established in the Indiana Territory in 1808 by Tenskwatawa, brother of Tecumseh. Located at the confluence of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers, roughly seven miles north-northeast of Lafayette, Indiana, Prophetstown was the site of the Battle of Tippecanoe. U.S. forces led by General William H. Harrison razed the village on November 7, 1811.

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1997), 120; Courtlandt Canby, The Encyclopedia of Historic Places (New York: Facts on File, 1984), 2:758.