Battle Ground

Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum in Battle Ground, Indiana

Time for a presidential campaign song! Let’s all sing along to “Tip and Ty,” more commonly known as “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.” Oh, maybe you don’t know that one? The nickname “Old Tippecanoe” belonged to William Henry Harrison, who defeated the Shawnee Native Americans on November 7, 1811, at a site along Burnett’s Creek in what is now modern-day Battle Ground, Indiana. Harrison was the govern…