Lewistown (also Lewis Town or Lewiston)
[ is an ]unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in central Washington Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States.[ As of the 2020 census, the population was 202.
Until the 1829 Treaty of Lewistown, the community was the site of a ]Shawnee
The Shawnee ( ) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language.
Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohi ...
Native American reservation, also called Lewistown, named after Captain John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...
, a Shawnee leader.[W.H. Perrin and J.H. Battle. ''History of Logan County and Ohio''. Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1880. (
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