Hell Town é o nome dado a uma antiga aldeia dos Lenape (ou Delaware), um povo nativo estadunidense, que ficava no Clear Creek, perto da cidade abandonada de , no estado de Ohio, nos Estados Unidos.Case, "Description of Mounds and Earthworks in Ashland County, Ohio," in Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Anthropology, 1883, p. 74. A aldeia se localizava em uma colina alta ao norte do encontro do Clear Creek com o , um afluente do .
Os Lenape se mudaram para a aldeia na década de 1770,Roeber and Kade, Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, 2008, p. 159. depois de serem expulsos de suas terras originais (em Delaware, Nova Jérsia, Nova Iorque e Pensilvânia) por causa do de 1758.Keenan, Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890, 1999, p. 234; Moore, The Northwest Under Three Flags, 1635-1796, 1900, p. 151. Eles chamavam a aldeia de Clear Town, por causa do riacho cristalino que corria perto dali. No entanto, eles mudaram o nome para Hell Town quando descobriram que "hell" era a palavra alemã para "claro".Wheeler-Voegelin and Tanner, Indians of Northern Ohio and Southeastern Michigan: An Ethnohistorical Report, 1974, p. 159.
A aldeia foi desocupada em 1782 por causa dos constantes conflitos com as tropas e os colonos estadunidenses, que estavam indignados com os Lenape porque alguns deles haviam se juntado aos britânicos durante a Revolução Americana.Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio..., 1896, p. 256. A violência atingiu o ápice no de 1782, no qual a milícia americana matou 96 Lenape.Olmstead, Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier, 1991, p. 54-55; Schonberg, Ohio Native Peoples, 2010, p. 25; Sisson, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, 2006, p. 1744-1745.
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