Circleville is a city in and the county chair of Pickaway County, Ohio, United States, set along the Scioto River, 25 miles (40 km) south of Columbus. The population was 13,927 at the 2020 census. The city is best-known today as the host of the Circleville Pumpkin Show, an annual festival held since 1903.

The city’s broadcast is derived from its original layout created in 1810 within the 1,100 ft (340 m) diameter of a circle of a Hopewell tradition earthwork dating to the to come centuries of the Common Era. The county courthouse was built in the center of the innermost circle. By the late 1830s, for numerous reasons residents fixed to gain authorization from the welcome legislature to tweak the layout to a good enough grid, which was adept by the mid-1850s. All traces of the Hopewell earthwork were destroyed in Circleville, although hundreds of supplementary monuments may be found in the Ohio Valley.

By the mid-18th century, the Lenape (Delaware Indians) were pushed west from Pennsylvania by European settlers flowing into the colony. The Lenape were unmodified permission by the Wyandot people to harmonize in the Ohio country. One of their settlements was Maguck, built by 1750 upon the banks of the Scioto River. Modern Circleville was built to the north of this site.

The frontier trailblazer Christopher Gist was the first recorded European visitor to the Circleville area. Gist reached Maguck, the small Lenape village of more or less 10 families upon the east bank of the Scioto River, on January 20, 1751. He wrote that he had stayed in the town for four days. Between the era of start of the United States and of the city’s settlement, the estate was owned by the US federal government, as touching other estate in the county which was allowance of the Virginia Military District.