Cornstalk Town

Marker on Emerson Road telling the story of the villages that were once on the Pickaway Plains & the banks of Scippo Creek

A sketch of Chief Cornstalk  as illustrated in John Frost's Pictorial History of Indians   (1873)

The murder of Chief Cornstalk at Point Pleasant in 1777. It was reported that when the door opened, with muzzles pointed at him, he stood and crossed his arms in defiance. He was shot six times and never showed fear.

Chief Logan's speech delivered to Lord Dunsmore in 1774 as it was written

" I appeal to any  white man to say, if ever   he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he cloathed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, and advocate for peace. Such was my   love for the whites. that my countrymen pointed as they pass, and say "Logan is a friend of the white man." I had even thought to have lived with you, but  for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all of the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not habour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will now turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? - Not One"

Located in Logan Elm Park is The Grenadier Squaw was Chief Cornstalk's sister and a prominent figure in the Shawnee village on the southern bank of Scippo Creek. 

I was one of the largest American Elm Trees ever recorded. It stood 65 feet tall, had a trunk circumference of 24 feet and a crown spread of 180 feet. It died from Died in 1964 Dutch Elm Disease and storm damage. There is a marker in Logan Elm State Memorial 2 miles from Gold Cliff Park.