Aerial View of the Shawnee State Park Marina and Ohio River Campground, which is located, just below the Mouth of Turkey Creek on the Ohio River

ID: 716 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Vaughn Wascovich ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek

This file appears in: Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek

Major John Belli and the First American Settlement on Turkey Creek

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

In the summer of 1787, John O'Bannon surveyed a one-thousand acre parcel at the Mouth of Turkey Creek in what would become Scioto County, Ohio. O'Bannon selected these lands for Larkin Smith, a…