Airport, where they built a blockhouse and log cabins, partially using wood from their flatboats. More people arrived over time, and more cabins were built. They struggled to get enough food to feed themselves and the new arrivals, but they did what they could by fishing, hunting, making a flour out of bear grass, farming, and acquiring some food from traders from Pittsburg. Of the three settlements, Columbia grew the fastest at first. It was initially the center of trading and the granary of the area. The first Protestant church (Baptist) in the Northwest Territory was erected in Columbia. Losantiville On December 28, 1788, eleven families with 24 men landed across from Licking River at what would be Sycamore Street and at present-day Yeatman's Cove. Losantiville, the central settlement, was named by the original surveyor, John Filson, who scouted the area on September 22, 1788 with Mathias Denman, and Colonel Robert Patterson. The name which means "The city opposite the mouth of the river" is composed of four terms, each of different language. Filson disappeared in October 1788, perhaps killed by Native Americans. The group, led by Patterson, who founded Lexington, Kentucky, originated in Limestone (now Maysville, Kentucky). When they arrived, Israel Ludlow became the settlement's surveyor and he laid out the town in a grid plan, which went from Northern Row (now Seventh Street) to the river, where land was set aside for a public landing. Its eastern and western borders are now Central Avenue and Broadway. Before April 1, 1789, 30 lots were given to people so the settlement would grow. It was attractive for its town layout along the waterfront. Aside from what they attained through hunting and fishing, they grew corn, beans, squash, cucumbers, and pumpkin. The town soon had a tavern and ferry service that carried people across the Ohio River to Kentucky. A justice of the peace, William McMillan was installed. By 1790, there were 700 people in the town due to an influx of new settlers and military troops posted at Fort Washington. Symmes wrote that Losantiville, then a settlement of forty two-story log houses, "assumes the appearance of a town of some respectability". North Bend on the Great Miami and a few miles west of Losantiville was founded by Symmes in February 1789. He had arranged a group of pioneers from Limestone, Kentucky that included soldiers and his family members to travel