Earlier, George Washington had commissioned Generals George Rogers Clark, Richard Butler and Samuel Parsons to make a peace treaty with the Shawnee Indians, and a fort was needed to secure the territory.
Today, the site is the coal yard of the Miami Fort Power Station.
The Treaty of Fort Finney, also known as the Treaty at the Mouth of the Great Miami, was signed on January 31, 1786, at Fort Finney between the United States and Shawnee leaders after the American Revolutionary War and ceded parts of the Ohio country to the United States.
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