Description: This image shows a monument dedicated to William H. Ortt at Fort St. Clair in Eaton, Ohio. The monument reads: "Wm H. Ortt, erected by Wm. H. Ortt , sacred to the memory of the comrades of the Civil War from Preble County Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06450
Subjects: Fort St. Clair (Ohio); St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818; State parks & reserves
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts a cannon used at Fort St. Clair in Eaton, Ohio. Fort St. Clair is just west of Eaton, Ohio. It was built in 1792 during the Northwest Indian War under the direction of Arthur St. Clair, to serve as a supply depot. The man pictured in the photograph is standing next to a replica of a cannon and some cannonballs. The fort was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06452
Subjects: Fort St. Clair (Ohio); St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818; State parks & reserves
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a memorial to the soldiers who served at Fort St. Clair in Eaton, Ohio. Fort St. Clair is just west of Eaton, Ohio. It was built in 1792 during the Northwest Indian War under the direction of Arthur St. Clair, to serve as a supply depot. The plaque on the monument reads "Erected October 1922 by Wm. H. Ortt. Sacred to the memory of the soldiers who fought and died in the battle with the Indians at Fort Saint Clair November 6, 1792." The fort was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06451
Subjects: Fort St. Clair (Ohio); St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818; State parks & reserves
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a mounted plaque at Fort St. Clair in Eaton, Ohio. The plaque reads "Fort St. Clair. One mile west. Erected in 1791-92, by order of General James Wilkinson. Here on November 6, 1792, Maj. John Adair's Kentucky Volunteers were attacked by Little Turtle." Fort St Clair was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 16, 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06453
Subjects: Fort St. Clair (Ohio); Little Turtle, 1747?-1812; Northwest Territory--History
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Whispering Oak at Fort St. Clair, a small supply fort built in 1791-1792 in Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00400
Subjects: Fort St. Clair (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Military Ohio
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows Fort Recovery, which stands on the spot where Fort St. Clair once stood.In December 1793, General Anthony Wayne ordered one United States artillery unit and eight infantry companies to the site of St. Clair's Defeat. The soldiers were to construct a fort on the former battlefield. Wayne intended to use this fort as a staging area for his assault against the region's American Indian tribes in the spring of 1794. He named the stockade Fort Recovery. Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers in August 1794, most American Indians realized they had little chance in stopping white settlement of their lands. In August 1795, many of the area's tribes agreed to sign the Treaty of Greeneville. They gave up all claims to land south and east of a line that extended south from Lake Erie, along the Cuyahoga River, to the Tuscarawas River, and then to Fort Laurens. From Fort Laurens, the line ran west to Fort Loramie, then northwest to Fort Recovery, and then straight south to the Ohio River. Anthony Wayne had secured from the American Indians the majority of modern-day Ohio with the exception of the northwestern corner of the state. The city of Fort Recovery, Ohio, stands today on the site of the frontier fort. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06521
Subjects: American Indian history and society; Fort St. Clair (Ohio); American frontier
Places: Fort Recovery (Ohio); Mercer County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts an obelisk atop a small hill at the Mound Hill Cemetery. Founded in the 1800s, is the largest in Preble County. Originally called the Eaton Cemetery, it is now also called Mound Hill Union Cemetery and is located at 533 West Main Street, in Eaton. Named for a prehistoric Indian mound which can be found near the front which now holds the remains of 15 soldiers from General Anthony Wayne's army who were killed in an Indian attack on October 17, 1793. The remains were moved from burial sites at Fort St. Clair, then re-interred in the mound on October 1847, and a 10ft. monument of Rutland Marble erected. In the foreground are headstones for John Stephens and Ann Eliz., Daughter of John Stephens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_010
Subjects: Cemeteries--Ohio; Obelisks; Mounds--Ohio; Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796; Fort St. Clair (Ohio)
Places: Washington Township (Ohio); Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph of a hand-drawn military map shows the encampment and disposition of forces during St. Clair's Defeat on November 4, 1791, near the future Fort Recovery, Ohio. St. Clair's Defeat is also known as the Battle of the Wabash and the Battle of Kekionga. The sketch shows the battle lines and location of battalions, artillery, the American Indian forces, and line of retreat. A handwritten caption reads: "The light I am in will not give me time fully to explain this plan of the action of the [indecipherable]." In November 1791, Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory, led a U.S. military force against the Miami tribe in the area of the Wabash River in western Ohio, near several Miami villages. On the morning of November 4, under the leadership of Shawnee chief Weyapiersenwah (Blue Jacket) and Miami chief Mishikinakwa (Little Turtle), a large alliance of seasoned volunteer warriors moved against the attacking forces. The American Indians engaged in the battle came primarily from nine different tribes, including the Wyandots, Seneca, Cherokee, Ojibwe, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Delaware, and Miami. Many of the militiamen under St. Clair immediately fled as the American Indians surrounded their’ camp. After three hours of fighting, the remaining U.S. soldiers fought their way out and began a lengthy retreat. The survivors reached Fort Jefferson late that afternoon and evening. Facing limited quantities of food and supplies at Fort Jefferson, St. Clair ordered his forces to Fort Washington. Of the 1,400 men who served under St. Clair, 623 soldiers were killed and another 258 wounded. One of the survivors stated, "The ground was literally covered with the dead." The American Indians had soundly defeated St. Clair's army; this loss, one of the worst defeats of the American military at the hands of the American Indians, would come to be known as "St. Clair’s Defeat." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06996
Subjects: Military maps; Military encampments; Kekionga, Battle of, Ohio, 1791; St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818; Little Turtle, 1747?-1812; Miami Indians; Fort Recovery (Ohio);
Places: Fort Recovery (Ohio); Mercer County (Ohio)