Gallipolis

Gallipolis

      city, seat (1803) of Gallia county, southern Ohio, U.S., on the Ohio River, near its junction with the Kanawha River, about 30 miles (50 km) north-northeast of Huntington, W.Va. The third oldest European settlement in Ohio, it was founded in 1790 by the Scioto Company for Royalists fleeing the French Revolution who had been deceived by agents of the company into purchasing land certificates that were worthless. The company later, however, financed a settlement at the site, and some French moved there. The name means “City of the Gauls.” During the American Civil War its strategic location resulted in economic prosperity; troops were channeled through the city, warehouses were built, and river traffic on the Ohio River increased.

      Gallipolis is the shipping centre for a farming and coal-mining region and has light industry. The University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College (1876) is 12 miles (19 km) northwest. Just south of the city is a lock and dam (1937) that raises the navigable depth of the Ohio River for 42 miles (67 km) and uplifts the Kanawha for 45 miles (72 km). The Our House Museum exhibits historical collections in a restored Federal-style inn and tavern (built 1819). Each May, the city commemorates the Marquis de Lafayette's 1825 visit to the community. A division of Wayne National Forest lies west and south of Gallipolis. Inc. village, 1842; city, 1865. Pop. (2000) 4,180; (2005 est.) 4,212.

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