What was once facetiously known as the "Gore" in Indiana Territory was a long tract in the shape of a wedge or gore off the east side of the Territory, widening southward and comprising most of the Whitewater Valley. This, along with land about Vincennes and a few small tracts, represents the first territory in Indiana to come into the possession of the United States by treaty with the Indians and dates back to 1795. By Wayne's treaty of that year, part of the Indian boundary line extended from Fort Recovery (in Ohio) to a point on the Ohio River, opposite the mouth of the Kentucky. When Indiana Territory was created, that line was part of its eastern boundary, but when Ohio was admitted as a state in 1802, the line was shifted eastward to the mouth of the Miami River - a boundary that had really been fixed by the Ordinance of 1787. Thus the triangle in question antedated, as a frontier, the early purchases along the Ohio River, though the lands were not put on sale prior to 1802. Ohio has laid claim to this strip of territory, as Michigan has to a ten-mile strip that was added to Indiana on the north, but no serious attention ahs ever been paid to these claims.