Like many towns, Columbus Grove has a history with the Native 
American Indians. This area was the site of a large grove of 
sugar maple trees. In nearby Ottawa, Indians had a village 
called Tuawa. They made an annual trip to the sugar maple grove, 
and harvested the sap for the production of sugar. The Treaty 
of the Rapids of the Maumee River (1817) resulted in the removal 
of the Ottawa Indians from Tauwa in the early 1830's and the 
beginning of Columbus Grove. In 1832 William Turner and Elias 
Fetheringill came from Grove Port, near Columbus and settled in 
Pleasant Township. In 1833 the land owned by the Ottawa Indians 
was sold by the United States Land Office in Wapakoneta and 
signaled the exit of the Native American Indians from Putnam 
County. In 1834, Pleasant Township was organized with J. B. Bogart, 
William Turner and John Featheringill as the first trustees.