It occurs on the right bank of the Scioto river, five miles below Chillicothe.
Many of the distinctively Northern fishes are found in the headwaters of the Wabash and the Scioto.
Very possibly it was occupied by the Shawnees before they built their first town at the mouth of the Scioto on the west bank.
The Shawanoes had sixteen small villages upon the Scioto and its branches.
Nothing was talked of but the free and rural life to be led on the banks of the Scioto.
