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<p>American Indians formerly used Old Maid's Kitchen, which also is known as Mary Campbell Cave, for shelter and , on occasion, to house white captives.</p> <p>The cave is located in Cuyahoga Falls in Summit County, Ohio. The Cuyahoga River carved out the cave approximately twelve thousand years ago. Originally, local residents called the cave Old Maid's Kitchen, but the Daughters of the American Revolution eventually renamed the site Mary Campbell Cave after the cave's most celebrated resident. During the French and Indian War (1756-1763), the a Lenape (Delaware Indians ) band captured Campbell. She lived in western Pennsylvania prior to her kidnapping. For seven years, the Delawares Lenape kept her as a captive at Chief Newcomer's village, which was located nearby Old Maid's Kitchen, along the Cuyahoga River. Eventually they allowed her to return to her family in Pennsylvania.</p> <p>The people natives Ohio's American Indian peoples were most likely to adopt were young Anglo-American children and women. They believed it Like the Moravian missionaries who established cultural centers in Eastern Ohio, some American Indians thought younger Anglo-Americans would be easier to control these people assimilate to traditional customs and force them to adopt Indian wayslifeways. Thus, women like Mary Campbell were adopted into by the Delaware tribeLenape. Adult men were less likely to be adopted. They were more likely to be killed by the natives. Such was the case with Colonel William Crawford in 1782. This is not to say that no adult men were ever adopted into native American Indian tribes. Daniel Boone, captured in 1778, became a member of the Shawnee Indians nation until he could escape. The natives kidnapped whites primarily because of their own dwindling numbers during the late 1700s. The Indians died from several causes but especially because of wars and from diseases spread by the Europeans.</p>