Ohio History Journal


Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623

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-