Editing Circleville, Ohio (section)

===Early history===
[[File:Circleville map.png|thumb|left|Map of Circleville's original layout]]
By the mid-18th century, the [[Lenape]] ([[Delaware Indians]]) were pushed west from Pennsylvania by European settlers flowing into the colony. The Lenape were given permission by the [[Wyandot people]] to settle in the Ohio country. One of their settlements was Maguck, a small village built before 1750 on the banks of the [[Scioto River]]. Modern Circleville was built to the north of this site.<ref>{{cite book| first= R. Douglas| last= Hurt| title= The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830| location= Bloomington| publisher= Indiana University Press| year= 1998| page= 17}}</ref>

Frontier explorer [[Christopher Gist]] was the first recorded European explorer of the Circleville area. On January 20, 1751, Gist visited Maguck, which had a small population of about 10 families. He wrote in his journal that he had stayed in the town for four days.<ref>{{cite book| editor-last= Darlington| editor-first= William| title= Christopher Gist's Journals| url= https://archive.org/details/christophergists00gistuoft| first= Christopher| last= Gist| year= 1893| author-link= Christopher Gist}}</ref> Between the time of the establishment of the United States and of the city's settlement, the land was owned by the US federal government (As opposed to other land in the county, which was part of the [[Virginia Military District]]).<ref name="Williams">{{cite book|title=History of Franklin and Pickaway counties, Ohio|publisher=Williams Bros|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293104537158|date=1880|access-date=April 24, 2018}}</ref>{{rp|213–4}}
<!--The land became part of [[Washington Township, Pickaway County, Ohio|Washington Township]], which only legally split from Circleville between March and May 1833, after a lengthy petition and appeal process.<ref name="Williams"/>{{rp|214}}-->

Circleville was founded by European-American settlers in 1810, as people relocated westward after the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref name="VanCleaf"/>{{rp|32–3}}
One such settler was George Hitler Sr., who migrated to Circleville in 1799 with his wife and 4 children, with seven more being born in Circleville after they resettled. One of these children, Dr. Gay Hitler, used to be a dentist. Numerous features of the town are named after this family, these being two 'Hitler' roads, Hubert Hitler Road, Hitler Pond, Hitler-Park, and Hitler-Ludvig cemetery.<ref>[https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/03/the-good-hitlers-of-circleville.html The Good Hitlers of Circleville]</ref><ref>[https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/schraege-geschichte-wie-die-hitlers-nach-ohio-kamen-a-e41b43f6-14e5-467e-a0b1-b20b8712ed9c Wie die Hitlers nach Ohio kamen]</ref> There is no connection between the family and [[Adolf Hitler]], whose surname was defined much later.