Chalahgawtha

The Chalahgawtha were one of five divisions of the Shawnee, traditionally providing political leaders for their loose confederacy. The chief's principal village was called Chillicothe, a name carried to new sites when the community moved.

A Chillicothe on the Scioto River grew after Shawnee returned to Ohio in the late 1750s. In Dunmore's War of 1774, a Virginian army marched to the Scioto villages and compelled the Shawnee to accept a colonial boundary.