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Pickaway Plains
Pickaway Plains is a wide area of rolling hills beginning Dunmore’s army of Virginia militia. Lord Dunmore was
about 3 miles south of Circleville, Ohio, and extending attempting both to subdue the Shawnee and Mingo, and
several miles to the north and south. This geological area to prevent Pennsylvania from laying claim upon present-
was formed sand and gravel deposited by melting water day Ohio. This conflict became known as Dunmore’s War.
from the last glacier to retreat from the region during the At Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Cornstalk and his army
Ice Age. During the time of inhabitation by the Shawnee, met a detachment of Dunmore’s army under command of
the Pickaway Plains were covered by prairie vegetation, Colonel Andrew Lewis.
mainly grasses. The forces met on October 10, 1774, at what became
known as the Battle of Point Pleasant. After several hours
Villages of intense fighting, Lewis’s detachment drove Cornstalk
and his men northward, across the Ohio River. Dunmore
This area was inhabited most recently by the Shawnee, then led his army in pursuit of the Shawnee.
who founded at least two villages here: Cornstalk and his men retreated to Pickaway Plains,
• was located on the north bank of the Scippo Creek in with Dunmore’s army still in pursuit. As they reached
Pickaway County, Ohio. It was just east of the present the villages, Dunmore requested that Cornstalk discuss
U.S. Highway 23 highway and approximately where a peace treaty. Cornstalk agreed after he received word
Gold Cliff Park is today. The town was named for that Lewis’s detachment had destroyed several villages
Cornstalk, a Shawnee chief. along the Ohio River. At the treaty, held at Camp Char-
• was located opposite the Scippo Creek from lotte, Cornstalk agreed to honor the Treaty of Fort Stan-
Cornstalk’s Town. The town was named for wix of 1768, ceding the Shawnee hunting lands of
Cornstalk’s sister Nonhelema, whom the British present-day Kentucky to Virginia.
called the "Grenadier Squaw" because of her
imposing stature.
External links
Dunmore’s War • Ohio History Central: Lord Dunmore
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources: US 23 Road
In 1774, the Shawnee and allied nations sent around Guide
300-500 men from the Pickaway Plains area to meet Lord • Ibid., "Burning Stake"
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Categories:
• Pre-state history of Ohio
• Geography of Pickaway County, Ohio
• Shawnee tribe
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