“The site is really significant,” said William Mahon, with the Ohio History Connection. “It’s the last official settlement of the Shawnee tribe before removal.”
A 12,000-square-foot interpretive center, built to pay tribute to a Shawnee longhouse, is a centerpiece of Great Council State Park near Xenia, which opens to the public Friday.XENIA, Ohio – Twenty-five years before Ohio became a state, members of the Shawnee tribe founded a village near modern-day Xenia, where they built a council house and traded with settlers.
On the top floor of the three-story center, numerous exhibits outline Native American history in the region – from the return of the Shawnee to the Ohio country in the 1600s, the settlement and coexistence with white settlers in the 1700s, and the tribes’ removal and resettlement in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Outside, the half-mile Blackfish Trail winds through a restored prairie and the Tecumseh Preserve Trail features a view of the Little Miami River.At 14 acres, Great Council is considerably smaller than most Ohio state parks.The park is located just off U.S. 68 between Xenia and Yellow Springs in Greene County, about 200 miles southwest of Cleveland.
The Ohio History Connection and Ohio Department of Natural Resources worked with three federally recognized Shawnee tribes to develop the exhibits at the park, including the Shawnee Tribe, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
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