A CIVIL WAR
campground named for BRIG. GEN. BENJAMIN TUPPER, an organizer of the Ohio Company and a first settler in 1788.
Benjamin Tupper (March 11, 1738 – June 16, 1792) was a soldier in the French and Indian War and an officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War achieving the rank of brevet brigadier general Subsequently, he served as a Massachusetts legislator, and he assisted Gen. William Shepard in stopping Shays' Rebellion Benjamin Tupper was a co-founder of the Ohio Company of Associates, and was a pioneer to the Ohio Country involved in establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory