As it were A place determined to be a town Some places seem to
be destined to be centers of human activity. Perhaps it is not
all that hard to see why. In the case of central Ohio, we find
towns and villages springing up on sites once occupied by the
prehistoric Mound Builders. These same places were later
inhabited by people from the historic Indian tribes –the
Delaware, the Wyandot and the Shawnee to name just a few. People
arrived from the East in the years after the American
Revolution, found these places of earlier settlement and liked
them as well. The land was usually of good quality and was
usually high enough to avoid flooding from nearby streams.
However, in the case of Plain Township in general and New Albany
in particular, settlement took a little longer than was the case
in other parts of central Ohio. In 1795, shortly after the
signing of the historic Treaty of Greenville, a young surveyor
named Lucas Sullivant led a survey party to the lands near the
junction of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers.