Ohio History Journal

Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting             581

 

FORT ST. CLAIR

Mr. H. R. McPherson read the report of the Com-

mittee as follows:

As chairman of The Fort St. Clair Committee I have the

honor to report as follows.

Since securing possession of Fort St. Clair, December,

1923, the following work has been performed on the grounds:

Purchased 280 rods of wire for fence, and new posts for

80 rods of old wire fence. A total of 360 rods of fence has been

erected. Four hundred and ninety-one steel posts were secured

for use in installing new and repairing old fences. We have re-

moved 340 rods of old fence; secured twenty-eight 8x8 red

cedar end posts and thirty-six 12 ft. boiler-iron post stays. We

have removed 40 rods of the old rail-fence and placed same

around three sides of the hill, through grove around monument,

graves, etc.

We have graded the avenues and placed 635 tons of crushed

stone thereon, and have built 90 rods of a thirty-foot avenue

through the battleground, and 80 rods of a twenty-foot avenue

through the walnut grove; have erected a fourteen-foot drive-

way over creek; removed and burned 230 stumps, and have

grubbed out roots; erected a forty-foot flag-staff at entrance gate-

way; have used 146 feet of galvanized pipe to carry water from

two springs through the hillside. A new entrance gateway, val-

ued at $2500.00 is about completed, and a bronze plate, 12x18,

installed. This plate bears the following inscription:

This Gateway

erected by

PREBLE COUNTY

HISTORICAL SOCIETY

with funds provided

by

LADIES OF THE COLUMBIAN SOCIETY

AND THE CIVIC LEAGUE.

EATON, Ohio. 1924.

Much labor has been required to remove brush piles, clean

the grounds, etc., and much work is yet to be done on the west

side of the grounds.

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We now have a driveway leading from the main entrance

passing through the valley, walnut grove, over the hillside, and

through the battlefield, returning to the main entrance.

Respectfully submitted,

W. H. ORTT,

Chairman.

On motion the report was accepted and ordered

placed on file.

President Campbell called attention to the fact that

at the last Annual Meeting the Society passed a reso-

lution complimenting Director W. C. Mills on his long

and faithful service to the Society.

General Orton on behalf of the Society presented

Dr. Mills with an engrossed and framed copy of those

resolutions, whereupon Dr. Mills in a few well chosen

words expressed his thanks and appreciation for the

high honor thus conferred upon him by the Society.

The resolutions appear in full in the minutes for 1923.

 

LOGAN ELM PARK.

The Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Frank Tall-

madge, read the report as follows:

Your Committee takes pleasure in reporting the completion

of the five acre tract containing in addition to the Logan Elm

and the cabin the following memorials: The one to Chief Logan,

the Boggs family site, and the Cresap stone with tablet exoner-

ating Cresap, and the names of a few prominent men in pioneer

life who were present at the Treaty and were to become famous

as Revolutionary Officers. This tablet, however, is regrettably

incomplete. The additional names recently secured should be

placed upon a new tablet, for which there is ample space.

There has been no loss by wind or lightning to the Logan

Elm this season. The fertilization of the Elm continues to show

splendid results. The park with its attractions continues to

draw visitors in increasing numbers.  The General Gibson

Grove, consisting of seventy-five young trees, has been planted,

and will grow in favor with picnickers and all lovers of nature.

This year marks the start of permanent setting of seedlings of

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