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6 unusual facts about Scioto River


Blue Jacket

In that year, a British missionary visited the Shawnee villages on the Scioto River and recorded the location of Blue Jacket's Town on Deer Creek (present Ross County, Ohio).

Hansen Site

The 6 hectare site is on a flood terrace of the Ohio River across from the mouth of the Scioto River, just upstream from the Lower Shawneetown site and the Old Fort Earthworks.

Jackson Guldan Co.

A second Library photo shows the factory from a location on the Scioto River with canal boats of the period in the foreground.

Mosopelea

According to the 1684 French map of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, the Mosopelea originally had eight villages just north of the Ohio River, between the Muskingum and Scioto rivers, within the present-day state of Ohio, corresponding with the heart of Mound builder country.

Supreme Court of Ohio

Since 2004, the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center (formerly known as the Ohio Departments Building) on the east bank of the Scioto River in downtown Columbus.

U.S. Route 35

This section of road provides westbound motorists with a panoramic view of the Scioto River valley.


Kispoko

"Kispoko Town" was situated on the east bank of the Scioto river, across from the Pickaway Plains about midway between present day Circleville and Chillicothe.


see also

Little Scioto River

Ohio Brush Creek was known historically as the Little Scioto River.