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General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who at Stoney Point in the Revolution fought like a madman, defeats the Indians at Fallen Timbers near present-day Toledo, Ohio. The battle was so named because a tornado had recently felled huge trees in the area. This defeat takes much of the steam out of Indian resistance in the Northwest Territory.

Captain Piggott begins building a 150 foot long timber bridge over Cahokia Creek near present Main and Trendley. It is completed in 1795. The road on the west end of the bridge is known as Menard and leads to his ferry landing at the site of what now is Market Avenue. The Cahokia common field road now crosses the bridge and ends at his ferry landing on the Mississippi. There was a strip of heavily timbered bottom land about a half a mile wide all the way from near the present town of Brooklyn to the mouth of Cahokia Creek, situated near the village of that name.

Piggott also buys property on the St. Louis river front to serve as a landing site for his ferry business. The river bank at that time was at present-day Front Street, 700 feet east of where the bank is now.