Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 11, 2026
On this sunny, warm spring day we hiked 13 different small trails throughout this Clark County Park District park totaling 4.1 miles. We began on Tecumseh Trail cresting Whiner’s Hill and past a beautiful waterfall. The 300-year-old beech-maple forest provided nice shade as we passed wildflowers and listened to many birds chirping. The trail then took down small hills, westward winding past the shore of Hosterman Lake then southwest eventually coming to a fort and the 1854 Hertzler House. Several smaller trails then took us past Tecumseh Springs to the Woodland Indian Village.
The triangular fort and blockhouse are modeled after a larger one in the Shawnee Village of Peckuwe. This area of the park and the land west of the Hertzler House were the site of the Battle of Piqua or Picawey on August 8, 1780, the largest battle fought west of the Allegheny Mountains during the Revolutionary War. Kentucky Militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clarks defeated Shawnee and other Indian tribes.
