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Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 581

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.