There's more to Legionville Your article ("The Battle of Legionville," May 10) on the proposed development of the Legionville site in Harmony Township, Beaver County, failed to mention the site's history as the leading Native American settlement along the Upper Ohio River just before the outbreak of war between France and England in 1754. The English called the settlement "Logs-town" referring more likely to a plentiful supply of logs washing ashore by spring flood waters than to a frontier village of log cabins. The French adopted the more mellifluous Iroquois name, "Shenango." By whatever name, it was in 1750 the central market to which all the Ohio Indians came to trade with English and French traders. As such, it became the site at which the Iroquois, who were the dominant tribe in the area, conducted all diplomatic negotiations with representatives from France and England or their colonies. It was nothing short of the commercial and political capital of the Ohio Valley. It was at Logstown in 1748 that Conrad Weiser on behalf of Pennsylvania made Pennsylvania's first diplomatic contact with the Ohio Indians, many of which, not surprisingly, were the object of General Anthony Wayne's military mission some 50 years later. It was at Logstown that Captain Celeron of New France stopped on his Sixotic journey in 1749 to claim the Ohio for ance, and dissuade the Indians from trading with the English. It was at Logstown in 1752 that Virginia entered into a treaty with the Iroquois whereby the Iroquois consented to Virginia's settling the lands site than PG would think south and east of the Ohio. And it was at Logstown in 1753 that a young George Washington stopped to pick up an Indian escort on his journey to deliver Virginia's fateful ultimatum to the French at Fort LeBoef. CONNOR M. COGSWELL President Sewickley Valley Historical Society Sewickley