 John Tipton later purchased the land to preserve it, and the Methodist Church purchased the mission school on the hill and used it as a seminary.Tipton left the battlefield to the seminary in his will, and they maintained it for many years, building a larger facility at the location in 1862.Harrison and the battle were memorialized by two Ohio towns being named Tippecanoe; one changed its name to Tipp City, Ohio in 1938.