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Native Americans. However, by 1797,the Native American peoples had lost control, and the territory started to be opened up.
It was surveyor from Virginia, Lucas Sullivant, who founded a settlement close to modern Columbus. He called this frontier village “Franklinton”, after Benjamin Franklin.
Ohio became a state in 1803. There was considerable dispute about the location of the state’s new capital, and as a compromise a place at the center of the state was chosen. A place opposite to Franklinton was chosen because it was in the center of the state. It had the additional advantage of being at the junction of navigable rivers, and rivers were the main way of getting about in those days.
Columbus was an entirely new settlement and designed as a capital city, and named after Christopher Columbus. At this time, the whole area was dense forest, so the city had to be made by first cutting down