The Story of Tonguish

The Indians then fled. The settlers hastily collected, organized, armed themselves and started in pursuit. The Indians fled up the Rouge river to its confluence with the west branch which they followed on the north side. The pursuing party first sighted the Indians near where the Indian trail crossed the town line between Nankin and Livonia, a little west of the mill pond of the present Nankin mills. At that point the Indians turned to the left and crossed the stream, since known as Tonguish creek, and passed out of sight over the opposite bank. The whites rapidly passed over the same valley but were surprised on ascending the opposite bank that no Indians could be seen. This was the more strange as the land before them was level plains with very little brush.