Editing Pickaway County, Ohio (section)

==History==
The future state of Ohio was part of the [[Northwest Territory]], created in 1787. To begin providing local control of this area, several counties were designated, among them [[Washington County, Ohio|Washington]] (1788) and [[Wayne County, Ohio|Wayne]] (1796) Counties. Portions of these counties were partitioned off to create [[Ross County, Ohio|Ross]] (1798), [[Fairfield County, Ohio|Fairfield]] (1800), and [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]] (1803) Counties. An act of the General Assembly of Ohio (January 12, 1810) directed that portions of Fairfield, Franklin, and Ross counties were to be partitioned off to create Pickaway County effective March 1, 1810, with [[Circleville, Ohio|Circleville]] named as county seat later that year (see [[Circleville, Ohio#Establishment|History of Circleville]]).