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Escaping punishment in post-Bastille Day, pre-revolutionary France, the promise of a new life in the boundless American frontier was tempting.
The Scioto Company encouraged investors in France to purchase lands in Ohio by describing a virtual Garden of Eden.
The Scioto Company did not actually own the land, which was not the land of milk and honey that they anticipated.
So the disillusioned settlers petitioned Congress and President George Washington for aid, and as a result, the Ohio Company sent a group of woodsmen from Marietta to build a log cabin settlement on what is now the city park.
The first U. S. census was conducted in 1820, and those accounted for at that time are known locally as the " first families.
" The early 19th Century also brought a large influx of Welsh people, who settled in Gallipolis and nearby Rio Grande.
In the late 1960s, Gallipolis gained notoriety for the collapse of the Silver Bridge, which spanned the Ohio River from Gallipolis to Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
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