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TRUSTEE MEETING AT SPIEGEL GROVE. On Thursday, June 30th, the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeo- logical and Historical Society held a regular meeting at the residence of Colonel Webb C. Hayes, Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio. It was a most |
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Miss Lucy E. Keeler-all members of G. A. R. Hon. J. C. Wonders, Chief of the Ohio State Highway Commission, was also the guest of Colonel Hayes. The entire party were comfortably bestowed in automobiles and whisked over the country roads, to the site of Fort Seneca, within the present precincts of the village of Old Fort, romantically located on the banks of the Sandusky River. Here the party traced the lines of the old fort, under the guidance of some of the elder inhabitants, one a genial well-preserved gentlemen, upwards of four score years of age, Mr. Hiram Risden, "born and raised on the spot," and who as a boy saw the fort picket walls and blockhouse defenses still standing. Mr. Risden's father -Joel Risden-located here, coming from Vermont in 1810. This was 319 |