I tablet was to the memory of President James A. Garfield, who was a citizen of Lake County, and one to Samuel Huntington, Governor of Ohio in 1808, whose early home was built 'in Painesville township in 1810. and is still standing. This Chapter, with other patriotic societies, had taken part in the unveiling of a monument to the memory of

Gen. Edward Paine, a Revolutionary soldier, who founded the town of Painesville in 1800.

The old Northwest Chapter at Ravenna has marked the spot where Capt. Samuel Brady immortalized the little lake, which - bears his name, by erecting a granite marker.

The Marietta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are soon to see their hopes of an imposing entrance to Mound Cemetery realized. This same Chapter, unaided by any other organization, have raised the funds for this Revolutionary memorial. The pillars of this gateway are of Peterhead granite, of splendid proportion, standing ten feet high, and surmounted by

bronze urns two feet tall. On each pillar is to handsome

be a bronze tabletthe one on the left with the inscription of presentation-on

PEACE MEMORIAL

the right, the following names of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Marietta: Major General James Varnum; Major General Samuel Parsons; Brigadier General Rufus Putnam; Brigadier General Benjamin Tupper; Commodore Abraham Whipple; Colonel Ebenezer Sproat; Colonel William Stacey; Major Ezra Putnam; Captain Josiah Munro; Captain Nathaniel Saltanstall; Captain Enoch Shephard; Captain Robert Taylor; Lieutenant Adjutant Anselem Tupper; Lieutenant Joseph Lin

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while escorting Colonel Ball's 71st U. S. A. Infantry from Major General Harrison's headquarters at Fort Seneca to relieve Major Croghan of the command of Fort Stevenson for alleged insubordination in refusing to evacuate the fort, was ambushed by Indians near this spot, but gallantly charging killed seventeen savages with the saber on the 30th of July, 1813. Erected by the Colonel Croghan Chapter, D. A. R."

This tablet was unveiled by the children of the members of the Chapter. On the same day another tablet was unveiled. About seven miles southwesterly from Fre

there were several cannon within the walls of the fort. They have also erected a stone and tablet on the redoubt where the British cannon from Commodore Barclay's fleet bombarded Major Croghan in Fort Stevenson, August 1, 1813. General Proctor attempted to capture the fort by assault with his Wellington veterans, assisted by Indians under Tecumseh. Major Croghan with one hundred and sixty men and one cannon, Old Betsy, repulsed the assault.

On September 10, 1910, this Chapter also unveiled the first tablet on the famous Harrison trail under the old elm tree in front of the Haven residence in Ballville. They placed a huge boulder with a tablet bearing this inscription:

"Ball's battlefield. Major Ball's Squadron and Second Light Dragoons, U. S. A.,

mont is a large boulder known as General Harrison's Mess Table, on the road from Fort Seneca to Fort Meigs. The tablet on this rock reads as follows: "General Harrison's Mess Table on the Indian trail leading from headquarters of General Harrison at Fort Seneca on the Sandusky River to Fort Meigs on the Maumee River, War of 1812. Erected by the Colonel Croghan Chapter, D. A. R."

The Daughters of the American Revolution of Ohio are to mark the historic trails and portages through the State something after the manner of marking the Santa Fé trail in the West. Especially important is the old Indian trail along the Sandusky and Scioto rivers from the lake to the Ohio. General Harrison and his army marched in the War of 1812 over that part of it

from Franklinton to the lake. The Daughters of Ohio pledged themselves to place a tablet on the monument to be erected at Port Clinton, on the north side of the Peninsula, on the shore of Lake Erie, to commemorate the embarkation of General Harrison and his army for Malden and Detroit and the Battle of the

Thames. The

tablet is now ready to be placed

and it bears the following inscription: OLD FRENCH WAR-PONTIAC'S

CONSPIRACY-REVOLUTION

ARY WAR.

NORTHERN TERMINUS of the old Indian Waterway and Land Trail, the Sandusky-Scioto route from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, used from the earliest records by the Indian and French Hunters, Explorers, Missionaries and War Parties in passing from the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes to the Ohio and the Mississippi, and later known as the Harrison Trail of the War of 1812. On landing near this spot, their light water-craft were portaged "57 arpents from Lake Erie across to "Lac Sandoski," up the Sandusky River, across the Sandusky-Scioto Portage and down

ground of the French from Detroit and the British from Fort Pitt during the old French War, prior to the Surrender of French Sovereignty in America to Great Britain in 1760.

Colonel John Bradstreet's Expedition for the recovery of the nine British posts captured in Pontiac's Conspiracy, sailed their larger watercraft, 60 long boats with 1,400 men, into the Sandusky Bay and up to the lower falls of the Sandusky (Fremont), where they encamped Sept. 20, 1764, the

the Scioto to the Ohio and Mississippi. The Sandusky-Scioto Trail along the banks of these rivers was the common battle

westernmost point reached, returning, encamped near where the old fort stood "on the carrying place between Lakes Sandusky

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and Erie," where Major Israel Putnam beclearing the ground to construct a fort," but "October 18 whole decamped. and embarked for Niagara."

During the Revolutionary War Major De Peyster, the British Commandant, sent Butler's Rangers with cannon from Detroit up to the larger falls of the Sandusky, where they supported the Indians in the repulse of Crawford's Expedition in 1782, which culminated in the burning of Colonel Crawford at the stake. Later "the British established a post at Lower Sandusky." (Fremont.)

It is especially opportune that the work of marking the Harrison trail is being done at this time, for it leads up to that great and crowning naval event in the War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie, in commemoration of which a fitting memorial is to be erected and dedicated September 10, 1913. It was Perry's victory which turned the tide of war and made possible General Harrison's victory at the Battle of the Thames.

come may read and learn that they are on consecrated ground.

To the above may be added the following by Mrs. Herbert Backus, of Columbus:

The Cuyahoga Portage Chapter of Akron has had as one of its aims the marking of the celebrated Portage path, after which the Chapter takes its name. "This Portage path, or Indian trail, between the Cuyahoga and the Tuscarawas rivers before European occupation of this country, was the great highway between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. It has always been an exceedingly important historical boundary line in the United States. It is referred to in the Lancaster treaty between the British and Indians in 1744, in the McIntosh treaty of 1785 and of Greenville in 1795. It was made a part of the eastern boundary of the territory ceded to the United States by the Indians. It is referred to by Thomas Jefferson in his notes of 1801; also in the famous ordinance of 1787. A portion of this path is still an open traveled highway, and is located partly within the city of Akron and partly west of the western boundary."

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