The land roughly comprising Duchoquet Township was once an Indian settlement which housed the Council House of the various tribes of Indians that lived in the Northwest Territory. The township was named for Francis Duchouquet the French fur trapper who lived with the Shawnee at Wapakoneta.

Many great Indian leaders came to Wapakoneta to council, including Logan, Blackhoof, Blue Jacket, Little Turtle, Tecumseh and his brother, The Prophet. It was from this spot that the tribes were forced to give up their claim to the Northwest Territory. They moved further west with the hope that they would be able to settle forever on land which would not fall into the hands of the white man.

At the very beginning of European settlement in the Northwest Territory, Wapakoneta was on the route from Detroit to Cincinnati. It became the site of a large Quaker mission, established in 1809, at which Shawnee children were taught the ways of the whites.

In 1815, Peter Hammel moved from Canada to Wapakoneta, and built a store for settlers. He sold groceries, hardware, dry goods and liquor. The next year, George C. Johnson built a trading house. The nucleus of a white settlement was evident by then as a mill and blacksmith shop began to operate.

In 1832, the Government land office was moved from Piqua and platting began in 1833. Soon, the 100 square-mile tract formerly included in the Indian reservation was available for sale.

The town of Wapakoneta was chartered on March 2, 1849.

Because of its railroad service and central location, Wapakoneta was the shipping point for many goods and products throughout the 20th century. Factories in Wapakoneta produced bricks, brooms, wooden handles, wagon wheels and spokes, horse-drawn carriages, wood furniture, cast iron goods, glass and bent wood butter churns, sheet steel toys, chrome steel furniture, cheese, soda pop, specially-hardened steel cutting blades, compressor parts, rubber pavement components, automotive parts and paper product packaging for distribution locally and throughout the world. Area farms have bred and raised livestock and crops of all types. Today, the industries of Wapakoneta have ties to many progressive ventures - from information technology industries to aerospace.