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Pottawatomie County has a unique history. Seminole, Creek, Citizen Band Potawatomi, Absentee Shawnee, Kickapoo and Sac and Fox Indian tribes settled it. It was opened to settlement in the Land Run of September 22, 1891. The county name was changed by vote in 1892 to honor the Potawatomi Tribe, whose name of “nishnabe” translates to "people of the place of the fire." The county has a strong heritage of agriculture, education, manufacturing, healthcare, commerce, and railroad businesses.