Ohio History Journal

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UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER

UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER

 

Appropriate and interesting exercises marked the

unveiling of a tablet by the Ohio Daughters of the

American Revolution on the site of old Fort Gower at

Hockingport, Athens County, Ohio. The exercises

preliminary to the dedication were held in the city of

Athens Friday evening, November 9. The formal

dedication and unveiling of the tablet occurred on the

day following at Hockingport. The granite monument

bears two tablets, one commemorating the building of

the Fort by Lord Dunmore on his way to the Pickaway

Plains and the resolutions adopted by Dunmore's offi-

cers expressing sympathy with their revolutionary

brethren in the Continental Congress; the other in

honor of Colonel Robert Patterson and his associates

who were here attacked by the Indians.

The program is here presented in full:

 

PROGRAM OF EXERCISES

UNVEILING TABLET AT HISTORIC FT. GOWER

by

OHIO DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

ATHENS, OHIO

Friday and Saturday, November 9th and 10th, 1923

 

Friday afternoon from three to five o'clock, Nabby Lee Ames

Chapter will receive all visiting Daughters at the home of Mrs. T.

Watson Craig.

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th -- ATHENS

Ewing Hall, 7:30 P. M.

Presiding ........................... Mrs. James T. Merwin

Regent, Nabby Lee Ames Chapter

Assembly ............................................. Vercoe Murphy

Bugler of The American Legion

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