{"nrhp_refnum":"80002953","name":"Pickaway Settlements Battlesite","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"N of Enon","address_restricted":false,"city":"Enon","county":"Clark County","state":"OH","lat":39.90947946850005,"lon":-83.92026870837603,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 700-acre battlesite near Enon, Clark County, Ohio, covering the former Shawnee village of Pickaway on the Mad River bottomland and the hills to its north and west, where a battle took place on August 8, 1780.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it was the scene of the largest battle in the frontier area west of the Allegheny Mountains during the American Revolution. Colonel George Rogers Clark's Kentucky militia defeated British-supported Shawnee forces there. Clark's campaigns helped defeat Detroit-based British plans to control the frontier and show his organizational and military abilities.","narrative":"Along the Mad River bottomland near Enon, Ohio, lies the site of the Shawnee village of Pickaway, where Colonel George Rogers Clark and about 1,000 Kentucky militia fought British-supported Shawnee warriors on August 8, 1780. Clark crossed the river, deployed troops on a prairie south of the village, and sent others around the Shawnee flank, pushing them back along the ridgeline. His artillery was used against the wooden structures of the village, and the fighting ended around five o'clock. The next day the village and cornfields were burned. The Shawnees did not rebuild here. Later the land became farms, a small settlement called New Boston, and in 1929 a state memorial park around the Hertzler House, now owned by the City of Springfield. The site is recognized for its military importance as the largest frontier battle west of the Alleghenies during the Revolution, and for its role in weakening British plans in the West. Much of it is still farmland, though a highway cut through part of it in 1956.","period_of_significance":"August 8, 1780","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Most of the battlesite remains farmland, with small subdivisions and roads at its edges. A limited-access highway built in 1956 damaged the village site and southern portion. A state memorial park created in 1929 has been owned by the City of Springfield since 1964.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.030846-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80002953.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987112","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/clark-county/pickaway-settlements-battlesite-80002953/"}