View of the Ohio River bottoms where Lower Shawnee Town was once located.

ID: 95 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.

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

View of the Ohio River bottoms where Lower Shawnee Town was once located.

A field of soybeans in the foreground, with the hills of Kentucky in the distance. The location of Lower Shawnee Town is found on the northern bank of the Ohio River.

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 Ohio valleys by the Iroquois in what historians…