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KOUTS HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY OF PLEASANT TOWNSHIP, As
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with over 200 warriors and their families coming to the St. Joseph valley by 1695. The arrival of a settlement occurred in 1834, four years existence of a
Potawatomi village. The village may have taken its name from the nearby woodlands,
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Indians. The earlier existence of an Indian village and a French trading post are identified by an historic marker in
Tassinong. The earliest presence of Europeans in the Porter County area is in 1679, when
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Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Lake and Porter, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey and Company. 177 pgs; Chapt 8, pg 188
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Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876, Reprinted from Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana; Baskin, Forester & Co, Chicago, Illinois 1876; Indiana Historical Society 1968
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Tassinong and Kouts: Siftings: Gleaned from Hither and Yon . . . and Now and Then . . . and Way back When --; A.J. Bowser; The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana;; Oct 2, 1934
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The Meaning of "Tassinong", Jacob P. Dunn, Indiana Magazine of History 1-12 (1915-16), Department of History, Indian University, Volume XI, Bloomington, Indiana; 1915, Page 348
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preached at Tassinong and that, in 1875, Sylvester Pierre, the Tassinong postmaster provided an extensive history for the village, including that it was originally called
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in Porter County, passing "through this territory on foot". No mention of Tassinong for any French post was made.
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Barr, Daniel P (2006). Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America. Greenwood Publishing Group.
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