[3] The history of human habitation in the Beaver Creek area dates back to the Clovis culture, about 10,000 years ago.

Archaeological digs nearby have uncovered arrowheads, pottery and knives that date back to these prehistoric Paleoindian people.

The last tribe to call the area home before being forced out by the encroachment of Anglo-American settlers in the Ohio Country were the Mingo and Wyandot Indians.

[2] The first permanent white settler in the area was John Quinn, a trapper who moved into the Little Beaver Creek valley in 1790.

[2] During the American Civil War, Confederate general and cavalry officer John Hunt Morgan led 2,460 troops past Union lines into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio in July 1863 as part of a military campaign called Morgan's Raid.

[6] The raid ended when Morgan and his men were forced to surrender near what is now Beaver Creek State Park.

The historic recreation Pioneer Village features a log home, church, schoolhouse, general store and blacksmith shop, and is next to the mill.

At one time this same region was a barren wasteland that had been stripped of its old growth forests to provide fuel for the iron furnaces.

Plant life at the park includes Dame's violet, goldenrod, spring beauties and asters.