Founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, Columbus was laid out to become the state capital.
Columbus is a created city. There was nothing but woods, paw-paw patches and plum trees on the “High Banks Opposite Franklinton at the Forks of the Scioto” until the Ohio General Assembly chose the place as the site of a new capital city for the recently created state of Ohio.
Ohio had become a state on or about March 1, 1803, when the federal government determined that the terms of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 had been met and more than 60,000 people were living in this place who were ready to govern themselves as a state equal in all respects to the existing states of the American union.
But this peaceful reliance was not to last. The members of the Ohio General Assembly faced a number of challenges. In a place with little money and a lot of empty land, raising enough money to keep government running was a challenge. Lurking in the background were the Native Americans who had been recently dispelled from the land and their British allies.
Facing continuing controversy, the Ohio General Assembly did what it often did. The legislators appointed a committee to go into the wilderness and find a new home for the state capital. The committee did just that and visited a number of places in central Ohio including Newark, Circleville, Delaware and Worthington. They rejected frontier Franklinton as it was on low ground and subject to flooding.
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