The Ohio Country
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Old Chillicothe

The Ohio Country, also, Old Chillicothe. . , The Ohio Country. In the 1700s, the region west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers was called the Ohio Country. Both Native American nations and Europeans settlers vied for this region's rich game and fertile soils. By 1763 France had been driven from the region, but peace remained elusive. Over the following half-century. English and American expansion clashed with native Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, and Wyandot nations. Decades of conflict culminated with the forced relocation of all Indigenous peoples from the Ohio Country, which later became the state of Ohio and parts of West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, and Southern Indiana., Old Chillicothe. Between 1777-80, this site was home to the principal Shawnee town in Ohio: Old Chillicothe. Old Chillicothe was vital to the struggle for the Ohio Country. Shawnee warriors under the leadership of Chief Blackfish left from here to raid settlements south of the Ohio River. Following years of conflict, American General George Rogers Clark razed the town in 1780 after the Shawnee evacuated north to the village of Pe'kwa, near what is now Springfield. The earliest white settlers-including the Galloways and Reeds-arrived here around 1797 and founded the community of "Oldtown". At its peak, it boasted several mills and factories. Today. Oldtown remains an inhabited but unincorporated community.