Minutes of Forty-second Annual
Meeting 623
Mr. Smith thinks no executor has been
appointed up to this time.
He will learn definitely in regard to
this soon. If the Society
thinks it of sufficient importance to acquire the
Mound, now is
the time to institute active measures.
(Signed) B. F. PRINCE,
Chairman.
FORT LAURENS PARK
The situation at Fort Laurens Park, one
mile east of Bolivar,
Ohio, has been unsatisfactory for a long
time. Very little has
been done since the building, some years
ago, of the park house,
which got in very bad repair, until it
was learned early this sum-
mer that there was a balance of about
$1400.00 of the last appro-
priation by the State Legislature, which
remained unexpended.
Steps were taken at once to have these
funds used for repair of
the park building and work on the
driveways. This work was
done under direction of Mr. Harry Lash,
local member of the
committee at Bolivar, in conjunction
with Mr. Clarence J. Lebold,
of Bolivar, who was recently nominated
for membership on the
committee to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Colonel W.
L. Curry.
The last Legislature made an additional
appropriation for the
improvement of the Park through the
efforts of the Representa-
tive, Charles T. Greenlee, of Tuscarawas
County, which will put
the Society in position to lay the Park
out with some landscape
gardening and beautify it with trees.
It is also planned to employ a caretaker
at a moderate salary
who will occupy the park house and keep
it in respectable condi-
tion. After the proposed improvements
are made, funds should be
provided for the erection of an
appropriate monument near the
highway and the site of the fort,
bearing an inscription setting
forth briefly the history of Fort
Laurens. It is probable that
aid could be secured from the United
States Congress to this end.
(Signed) EDWIN D. MOODY
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FORT MEIGS,
FORT MIAMI AND FALLEN TIMBERS
FORT MEIGS:
While the restoration of Fort Meigs was
initiated by the
people of the neighboring Village of
Perrysburg, the preservation
and maintenance of this historic site is
in charge of a special com-