McColloch's+Leap


 * [[image:McColloch's_Leap.jpg]]|| [[image:McCollochsLeap-OCPL.jpg width="600"]]||
 * //1851 lithograph by Nagel and Weingaertner; image from [|Library of Congress]//||Photo (from 1890s?) of leap area (Ohio County Public Library).||

This almost mythic, but actual, event of Major Samuel McCulloch escaping Indians by forcing his horse to jump down Wheeling Hill is commemorated by a plaque placed near the summit of the Hill on Route 40 (National Road). The memorial is described in the [|Smithsonian Art Inventory]



On [|July 30, 1782] Mingo and Wyandot Indians finally caught up with McCulloch near Fort Van Meter at Wheeling and killed him. [|Here] is a detailed history of his death.

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