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to the War Department, at Washington,
for the record.
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for the good judg-
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The ten volumes already issued run
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HISTORICAL BOUNDARY LINE COMMEMORATED BY
MONUMENT.*
ADDRESS BY CAPTAIN C. L.
BAATZ.
Several hundred Massillon citizens and
friends at-
tended the unveiling of a boulder,
Wednesday after-
noon, on the Massillon-Canal Fulton
Road, marking the
boundary line created by a treaty
concluded between the
Indians and the United States in 1785.
The line formed a boundary dividing the
territory
of the United States and the Indians.
It extended
through this city along the Tuscarawas
River.
The local council of Boy Scouts
selected the site for
the location of the boulder on a curve
of the Massillon-
Canal Fulton Road near Crystal Springs.
The Boy
Scouts also found the boulder upon
which has been
placed a bronze tablet.
* Massillon Evening Independent, September
9, 1926.
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The monument was erected through
contributions
of Massillon school children to a fund
created by the
Daughters of the American Revolution to
mark historic
spots in and near Massillon.
The inscription on the bronze tablet
reads:
This boulder overlooks the Tuscarawas
River and commem-
orates the treaty concluded in 1785 with
the Wyandot, Delaware,
Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians, whereby
the River became part
of the boundary line between the United
States and the territory
of the Indians.
Erected through the contributions of the
children of the City
of Massillon, Ohio. Stone and site located by the local Boy
Scouts of America, September 8, 1926.
Previous to the unveiling of the
monument by two
Boy Scouts, the Massillon Band gave a
short concert.
Paul R. Stewart, scout commissioner,
introduced the
speaker, C. L. Baatz.
Captain Baatz said:
Primitive people in all lands always
have definite trails or
paths leading from one favorite hunting
ground to another.
Our Indian trails in Ohio were first
made by great hordes
of buffaloes that were obliged to seek
other grazing grounds --
like here on this trail, going north in
early summer, then south
again before the cold winters came.
These trails always followed the
highlands along streams
whose waters were deep enough to carry
the Indians in their
light canoes, when large numbers of
Indians made these north
and south trips, and when the rivers
were frozen. Thus the trails
made by the buffalo became fine roads
for our primitive Ameri-
cans.
When at war with the Indians, our
military leaders, in going
into the wilderness, always led their
soldiers over these well-
defined trails.
The trail we dedicate today is known as
the "Portage Trail,"
and a brief description of its
acquirement from the Indians is here
given. The first treaty concluded with
the Indians of Ohio was
made at Ft. McIntosh, January 21, 1785, and was signed by the
Wyandots, Delawares, Chippewas and the
Ottawa Nations. This
Reviews, Notes and Comments 583 treaty, with the one entered into and signed by the Wyandots, Delawares, and Shawnees in January, 1786, were really only scraps of paper, as the Indians were continually on the war-path until they were completely subdued by "Mad Anthony" Wayne at Fallen Timbers, late in the season of 1794. Then on August 3, 1795, a new treaty at Greenville was signed by the following tribes: Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatomies, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Pianka- shaws and Kaskaskias. By this treaty the Indians gave up the land described as fol- lows: Beginning at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, thence up this river to the Portage; thence over the Lakes to the Tusca- rawas Portage; thence down said river to the crossing place above Fort Laurens and opposite the Delaware Indian Village at the mouth of the Big Sandy River; thence westerly along the Green- ville Treaty Line to the Miami River; then westerly to Fort Re- covery; thence southwesterly to the Ohio River opposite the mouth of the Kentucky River. All lands east and south of the above line became the land of the United States and this famous trail was then used as a highway by our hardy pioneers to whom it offered a great thoroughfare from the Lakes to the Ohio River. Now, my good friends, we are especially privileged today for the opportunity to participate in the dedication of this marker of the "Portage Trail." We are under particular obligation to the Daughters of the American Revolution who interested the school children and the Boy Scouts of our city to raise funds to secure this magnificent boulder and the bronze inscription plate; and may I express our thanks to them, who this day behold a consum- mation of their patriotic ideals. The Eagle Scouts may now remove the colors from this marker which we dedicate to our American Citizenship. |
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