Oletangy

The Olentangy flows south through central Ohio to join the Scioto, cutting a valley of limestone bluffs, bottomland forest and wet prairie. Before American surveyors arrived, Wyandot, Shawnee and Lenape families lived in the upper Scioto country, growing corn and squash in the river meadows and hunting deer and turkey in the woods. A trail from the Scioto headwaters toward Lake Erie crossed the valley, carrying traders, runners and war parties between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. After the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 opened the region, surveyors laid out townships along the river, and mills were built on its falls.

The later city of Columbus lies here.