{"id":3556,"date":"2013-05-09T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2017-05-12T18:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:33:22","slug":"where-was-ohios-first-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/where-was-ohios-first-capital.html","title":{"rendered":"Where Was Ohio\u2019s First Capital?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chillicothe, Ohio, was the state\u2019s first capital\u2014from 1803-1810\u2014and then it became Ohio\u2019s third capital from1812-1816. GenealogyBank has that early period of \u201cThe Buckeye State\u2019s\u201d history covered with four Chillicothe newspapers from 1801 to 1839.<\/p>\n

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Wait\u2014 Chillicothe was Ohio\u2019s first and<\/em> third capital?<\/p>\n

Why did the capital of Ohio change so much?<\/p>\n

In the 1800s Ohio\u2019s politicians could not agree on where the capital of the state should be located. It alternated between Chillicothe and Zanesville, and finally in 1812 the state\u2019s politicians settled upon a compromise and chose Columbus as Ohio\u2019s new capital.<\/p>\n

However, there was a problem. The city of Columbus did not yet exist\u2014it was simply a heavily-forested area in the center of the state. But where there is a will, there is a way\u2014and the city born of compromise was organized, populated and became the established capital city of Ohio that we know today.<\/p>\n

Read about life in Chillicothe, Ohio\u2019s first capital city\u2014and find the obituaries and articles about your ancestors, as well as news stories about the political infighting of that day, in GenealogyBank\u2019s Ohio Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can search all four of GenealogyBank\u2019s Chillicothe, Ohio newspapers<\/a> on one search page.<\/p>\n

Or, you can search each newspaper for genealogy records independently. The titles in the below list are active links; click on any one to take you directly to that specific newspaper\u2019s page where you can search for articles about your ancestry by surname, dates and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
City<\/td>\nNewspaper<\/td>\nDate Range<\/td>\nCollection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chillicothe<\/td>\nFredonian<\/a><\/td>\n2\/19\/1807 \u2013 8\/10\/1813<\/td>\nNewspaper Archives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chillicothe<\/td>\nScioto Gazette<\/a><\/td>\n8\/2\/1801 \u2013 12\/26\/1839<\/td>\nNewspaper Archives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chillicothe<\/td>\nSupporter<\/a><\/td>\n1\/5\/1809 \u2013 1\/20\/1818<\/td>\nNewspaper Archives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chillicothe<\/td>\nWeekly Recorder<\/a><\/td>\n7\/5\/1814 \u2013 12\/27\/1820<\/td>\nNewspaper Archives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chillicothe, Ohio, was the state\u2019s first capital\u2014from 1803-1810\u2014and then it became Ohio\u2019s third capital from1812-1816. GenealogyBank has that early period of \u201cThe Buckeye State\u2019s\u201d history covered with four Chillicothe newspapers from 1801 to 1839. Wait\u2014 Chillicothe was Ohio\u2019s first and third capital? Why did the capital of Ohio change so much? In the 1800s Ohio\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3,1641,1653,1658,2233,1661,465,2191,5354,5366,2020,27,539,1091,5426,3923,3053,3924],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-chillicothe","tag-columbus","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-history","tag-life","tag-news","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-oh","tag-ohio","tag-records","tag-state-capitals","tag-the-buckeye-state","tag-zanesville"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}