The first Wakatomika was located along the Muskingum River, near present-day Dresden, Ohio, and was close to a number of Lenape towns.
[1] After the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754, the Shawnees were distancing themselves from raids by the colony of Virginia.
For the same reason, in 1758 the Shawnee residents of Lower Shawneetown, also on the Ohio River, moved fifty miles upriver and established new towns on the Pickaway Plains, near modern Circleville, Ohio.
[1][2] In August 1774, during Dunmore's War, Wakatomika and four other Shawnee villages on the Muskingum were destroyed by Virginia colonial militia in an expedition led by Angus McDonald.
The second was erected in 2010 by the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Ohio Historical Society.