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| A sampling of 3D computer re-creations of The Ohio
Company's five major settlements. |
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| "Picketed Point"
(above) was the commercial part of the Marietta settlement built at the
confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. The prominent building on
the corner was Dudley Woodbridge's store. |
| Just across the Muskingum,
Fort Harmar looked out over the Ohio River; its original purpose was to evict
squatters and protect the Indians from the settlers.
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"New
photographs” of the Ohio Company’s pioneer settlements from 1788 to
1791 have emerged. How is this possible?
Click to find out. |
View 360° Panorama of "The Point" |
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View of the fort from the river
(left).
On the right is a view from inside the walls of the fort.
The lookout box was above the front gate and overlooked the confluence of
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Campus Martius was built about a mile up the
Muskingum River. Individually owned houses made up the “curtain
walls” of the fort, making it an early “condominium” of sorts.
Below we see the fort still under construction during the
first winter of 1788-89.
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After the beginning of the
Indian Wars in 1791, Campus Martius was further fortified with an outer
stockade wall of pointed logs and a close-in abatis of pointed logs set on
an angle. Additional sentry boxes were built on the outside corners of
the blockhouses. The fort had at least two small cannon in the NE and
SW blockhouses. Probably because of its strength, Campus Martius was
never attacked by Indians.
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| Fort Frye, near Waterford, was
rushed to completion beginning the morning after the Big Bottom Massacre.
It was finished with only three sides because it was quicker to build that
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Farmer's Castle was
one of three stockades built in Belle Prairie (Belpre). It was
situated across from the middle of Backus' Island (today's Blennerhassett
Island). Devoll's floating mill is anchored in the river. |
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| Above is a view of Picketed Point
looking west toward the Muskingum River. In the foreground is the "Red
House," a hotel and tavern, which was built in the fall of 1789 by
Joseph Buell and Levi Munsell , both Sergeants from Fort Harmar.
It was the first frame building in the NW Territory, built from lumber
brought down river from McKeesport, PA. "Several gentlemen" invited 14
Indian Chiefs "to smoke the pipe of friendship at Buell and Munsell's Hotel"
on the 19th of November, 1792, according to historian Sam Hildreth. |
