Qualla: Gallipolis https://qualla.com/gallipolis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/gallipolis-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Gallipolis https://qualla.com/gallipolis Gallipolis: Introduction https://qualla.com/gallipolis/ Photo credit Kurt Tarvis, CC BY 4.0. Five hundred French men, women, and children stepped off boats at this stretch of the Ohio River in 1790, holding deeds to land that the company selling them had no right to convey. They had paid for tracts upriver in Marietta and arrived to find that the Scioto Company had been a fraud. The Continental Congress, embarrassed by the spectacle of European refugees stranded on the American frontier, scrambled together a separate parcel of land for them and named the new settlement Gallipolis - city of the Gauls. Most of the original 500 died within a few years from disease, starvation, and the simple incompatibility between aristocratic Parisian life and frontier Ohio winters. The town they founded survived them.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/gallipolis-wk/dnvs-gallipolis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Gallipolis: The Scioto Fraud https://qualla.com/gallipolis/ Photo credit Scott Stewart, CC BY 2.0. In the late 1780s, an American speculator named Joel Barlow was sent to Paris to sell American land to French investors. The Scioto Company offered tracts along the Ohio River at attractive prices. Barlow was successful enough that several hundred French citizens - aristocrats, m...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/gallipolis-wk/dnvs-gallipolis-the-scioto-fraud.mp3 0:06 2 full Gallipolis: Congress Steps In https://qualla.com/gallipolis/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The U.S. government, fielding diplomatic complaints from France and a public relations crisis at home, agreed to provide an alternative settlement. Land at the future site of Gallipolis was acquired and laid out for the French 500. The Ohio Company of Associates built rough log h...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/gallipolis-wk/dnvs-gallipolis-congress-steps-in.mp3 0:06 3 full Gallipolis: The First Winters https://qualla.com/gallipolis/ Photo credit Scott Stewart, CC BY 2.0. Most of the original French 500 did not survive the first decade. Disease swept through the makeshift cabins. Aristocratic Parisians had not learned the kind of frontier skills the surrounding American settlers grew up with. Some went home to France when they could afford the pas...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/gallipolis-wk/dnvs-gallipolis-the-first-winters.mp3 0:06 4 full Gallipolis: An Ohio River Town https://qualla.com/gallipolis/ Photo credit Kurttarvis, CC BY-SA 4.0. By the 19th century, Gallipolis had become an Ohio River port like many others - shipping, milling, light manufacturing, the steady ebb and flow of river commerce. The county seat of Gallia County, named for the same Roman province as the town, settled into the rhythms of a small...

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