Herman H. Wessel's mural, "Under the Banner of France" (1927)

ID: 734 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Vaughn Wascovich ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: Lower Shawnee Town and Céloron's Expedition of 1749

Herman H. Wessel's mural, "Under the Banner of France," captures Céloron's meeting at Lower Shawnee Town. Painted in 1927, the mural is located in the Law library of the Scioto County Courthouse, Portsmouth, Ohio. Wessel's mural served as the basis for Robert Dafford's flood wall mural of the same subject.

This file appears in: Lower Shawnee Town and Céloron's Expedition of 1749

Lower Shawnee Town and Céloron's Expedition of 1749

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Beginning in the late 1730s, the Shawnee Indians established one of their principal villages here. Some sixty years earlier, in the 1670s and 80s, the Shawnee had been expelled from the Scioto and…