Ohio History Journal

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A VISIT IN 1929

A VISIT IN 1929

TO THE SITES, IN WESTERN OHIO, OF FORTS BUILT BY

GENERALS ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, ANTHONY WAYNE

AND WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

 

 

BY JAMES A. GREEN

 

CHAPTER I

On the Fourth of July, 1929, I made a patriotic pil-

grimage, visiting the sites of some of the forts erected

in western Ohio in St. Clair's and Wayne's Indian Cam-

paigns and by Harrison in the War of 1812. As showing

the immeasurable difference between the slow and labor-

ious progress of our early armies and the speed of the

modern automobile, I left my house in Avondale - Cin-

cinnati- at 11:00 A. M. on the Fourth, slept at Del-

phos; from there went to Fort Jennings and Fort Brown

and returned by way of Paulding and Van Wert, reach-

ing home at 4:30 P. M. on the fifth. The distance cov-

ered was 378 miles. Every foot of the way we were on

a good road and for the most part we were on cement

and brick highways, smooth and level as a floor. A speed

of from 40 to 55 miles an hour was quite safe, and with

the exception of the heavy trucks most of the cars on the

road were going at about that rate.

The automobile has not yet ceased to be a marvel.

We still wonder at the way in which it annihilates dis-

tances. The young people who are not yet over thirty

take it for granted; they have been accustomed to it all

their lives, but to men like myself - who were born in

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