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Rh Mad Anthony Street, in Cincinnati, is the beginning of Wayne's Road northward up Mill Creek Valley, thence running northwest to Fort Hamilton on the watershed south of the head branches of the West Fork. The route through Hamilton is given by Everts as across the sites of Snider's paper-mill, Niles tool works, and Cape and Maxwell's plant. The old track crossed the Miami a few rods south of the eastern end of the High Street bridge and from there circled around the west end of what is locally known as the "Devil's Backbone" on what was L. D. Campbell's peninsula but which is now an island. Wayne's first camp was at Five Mile Spring, southeast of the village of Five Mile. The old route passed over the present site of that village and kept on the eastern side of Seven Mile Creek all the way to Fort St. Clair (Eaton, Preble County). Two Mile, Four Mile, Seven Mile, and Nine Mile Creeks were all so named from Wayne's crossing-places. Following up the valley of Seven Mile about two miles, the old track leaves it near Nine Mile Creek and