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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e center of Croghanand Arch streets. The center blockhouse was about opposite the monu-ment. The northwest angle of the fort extended out about 15 feet intoHigh street. There were many extra guns in the fort, as a companyof Pennsylvania soldiers had deposited their guns there a few days be- 54 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. fore the battle on their way here from Fort Meigs. Their time beingout, they were on their way home to be mustered out. The walls of the fort were made of logs, some round, some smoothon one side, half of the other logs averaging about 18 inches in thick-ness, all set firmly in the earth, each picket crowded closely against theother and all about ten feet high, sharpened at the top. The wallsenclosed about one acre of ground. After Major Croghan took com-mand July 15, 1813, he had a ditch dug six feet deep and nine feetwide around the outside, throwing about one-half of the earth againstthe foot of the pickets and graded down to the bottom of the ditch;
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SPIEGEL GROVE. the rest of the earth was thrown on the outer bank and the depth ofthe ditch thus increased. Major Croghan had large logs placed on top of the wall of thefort, so adjusted that an inconsiderable weight would cause them tofall from their position and crush any who might be below. When the British landed opposite Bradys Island they sent a flagof truce under Col. Elliott who was met by Ensign Shipp on the ridgewhere the parsonage of St. Johns Lutheran Church (which was for-merly the court house), now stands. This was eloquently described tome by Thomas L. Hawkins, the poet, preacher and orator. A ravine ran up from the river north of the fort through Justicestreet across the pike in a southwestern direction near the court house, The Croghan Celebration. 55 the British brought their cannon up this ravine. They would loadtheir cannon and then run them up out of the ravine and after dis-charging them, back them down again to reload out of range of theguns of the fort. The nex

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