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This Frenchman and Miami Indian wife
operated a trading post on the west side of Wildcat
Creek a mile south of its flow into the Wabash. A
Winnebago Indian village of 140? huts stood on the
opposite side of the creek. His eldest son, Peter,
Jr., born __ the post about 1803. Operated it
while his father conducted a branch in Logansport and
died __ 1834.
Erected by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association,
198_
Peter Langlois Trading Post was located on the
Wild Cat Creek just
east of Springvale Cemetery and north of State Road 25
northeast of Lafayette.
Peter Langlois was a half-breed chief of the
Potawatomi Indians.
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