Chillicothe was the first Capital of Ohio, beginning in 1803, and The Ross County Courthouse served as Ohio's first statehouse. The building was long ago replaced with a newer and larger one. However, in 1940, when the town's newspaper, the Chillicothe Gazette, built their office on Main Street (half a block from the original capital site) they made it to be a replica of the original capital building. Two stones on either side of the front entrance were actually taken from the original limestone capital building and plaques on the side of the Gazette offices tell the story.The capital was permanantly rmoved from Chillicothe to Columbus in 1817, and the building which had been the statehouse reverted to being the Ross County Courthouse.
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