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Area code. 740. FIPS code. 39-71962 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2399792 [2] Shawnee is a village in Perry County, Ohio, United States. The population was 505 at the 2020 census. It is 9 miles (14 km) south of the county seat of New Lexington.
The Shawnee (/ ʃɔːˈni / shaw-NEE) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. [2] In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. [4]
Website. Shawnee State Park. Shawnee State Park is a 1,095-acre (443 ha) public recreation area surrounded by the 63,000-acre (25,000 ha) Shawnee State Forest in Scioto County, Ohio, United States. The park is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains near the Ohio River in Southern Ohio on State Route 125, just north of Friendship.
Shawnee, Hamilton County, Ohio, a census-designated place; Shawnee, Perry County, Ohio, a village This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 02:50 (UTC ...
Sporting affiliations. NAIA – River States. Website. www.shawnee.edu. Verne Riffe Center for the Arts. Shawnee State University (SSU) is a public university in Portsmouth, Ohio, United States. Established in 1986, Shawnee State is an open admissions university. It is the southernmost member of the University System of Ohio.
When the British American colonies began expanding into the Ohio Country, Cornstalk played a major part in defense of the Shawnee homeland. He was the primary Shawnee war chief in Lord Dunmore's War (1774), leading Shawnees and other Native warriors against colonists in the Battle of Point Pleasant. After suffering defeat in that battle, he ...
Lower Shawnee Town, as it was called by European-American colonists, was a large town on the Ohio River, founded about 1734 by Shawnee. The Shawnee name of the town was not recorded, but scholars believe it may have been "Chillicothe". [2] The town grew to be a major trading hub in the years leading up to the French and Indian War.
Shawnee is a census-designated place (CDP) in Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, 21 miles (34 km) west of downtown Cincinnati. The population of Shawnee was 747 at the 2020 census. Geography. Shawnee is located in the southwest corner of the state of Ohio, occupying the land between the Ohio and Great Miami rivers.