Last Buffalo in Scioto County

Information taken from The Portsmouth Times, Saturday, June 5, 1965


Phil Salladay Shot Last Scioto Buffalo

Phillip Salladay is credited with the last buffalo kill in Scioto County around 1801.

Salladay reportedly killed the beast while hunting with his boy on Pine Creek, near what is now Chaffins Mills.

Salladay and the boy crept up close to the buffalo and Salladay shot it.

The animal was wounded, and charged them.

As the boy was getting his rifle ready to shoot, the father snatched it from him and killed the buffalo.