The town was laid out and formally founded by James Demint in 1801. As early white settlers moved into the area, there was a definitive clash of cultures, represented best by an exhibit on the second floor of the Heritage Center.
The exhibit features an early map, the Virginia Military Land Survey book, a surveyor’s chain, and the very compass that was used to lay out much of the area and a large part of Ohio.
These items demonstrated that the settlers approach to land ownership was far different than that of Native Americans, who had no concept of personal land ownership: land belongs to no one and to all.
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