Muskingum or Conchake
Msh-Kik-Wam or Cong-Sha-Keh | |
|---|---|
Historic Native American village | |
| Etymology: Unami: msh-kik-wam "swampy ground"[1] or Iroquoian languages: koshaxkink "river crossing"[2] | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USA_Ohio_location_map.svg)  Muskingum Former location of Muskingum in Ohio &sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Usa_edcp_location_map.svg) Muskingum Muskingum (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 40°16′4″N 81°51′24″W / 40.26778°N 81.85667°W | |
| State | Ohio |
| Present-day Community | Coshocton, Ohio |
| Founded | 1748 |
| Abandoned | 1759 |
| Population | |
| • Estimate (1750) | 300−400 |
Muskingum (also known as Conchake) was a Wyandot village in southeastern Ohio from 1747 to 1755.[3]: 288 It was an important trade center in the early 1750s, until it was devastated by smallpox in the winter of 1752. The town was repopulated for a short time afterwards, then abandoned again as a new community was established by Netawatwees a few miles to the east at Gekelukpechink. The city of Coshocton, Ohio was founded close to the site of the village in 1802.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
gilwell.comwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
Nameswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Charles Augustus Hanna, The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the Allegheny Path, Volume 2, Putnam's sons, 1911