Springfield is at the heart of it all.

George Rogers Clark, for whom the county is named, led a band of Kentuckians, including Simon Kenton, into this territory and defeated the Shawnee Indians at the Battle of Piqua in 1780.

In 1799, Simon Kenton built a fort at the confluence of Mad River and Lagonda (Buck) Creek. By 1827, the tiny frontier hamlet had become a town and was granted a city charter by Ohio in 1850.