| Ohio (Ottawa County), Marblehead — 1-62 — First Battle Site — 1812 — Ohio Historical Marker |
| | The first War of 1812 battle on Ohio soil was fought here when about 60 exhausted citizen soldiers were ambushed by about 130 Indians on September 29. Twenty men held the Indians at bay in a cabin while the main body escaped by boat to Cedar Point. Two days later the defender were rescued. Forty Indians including several chiefs and 8 Americans were killed in the skirmish, neither a victory nor a defeat for either side. — Map (db m18959) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Marblehead — In Memory of Mason, Simonds & Mingus |
| | [Marker Front]:
In memory of
Mason, Simonds, & Mingus.
Who fell near this place
in battle with the Indians.
Sept. 29, 1812.
[Marker Side]:
This Monument was erected in 1857 by Joshua R. Giddings
The land on which it stands was deeded in 1911 by the Kelley Island Lime and Transport Co., to the National Society United States Daughters of 1812, State of Ohio who placed this tablet here in 1914. — Map (db m18978) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Marblehead — 2-62 — Johnson's Island — Military Prison Camp |
| | In 1861 the United States Army established a prisoner of war camp on Johnson's Island, approximately 1 mile south of this point. The camp, which housed captured Confederate officers, was maintained until 1865 when it was dismantled. The camp cemetery contains the graves of 206 men who died as a result of disease, wounds or by execution while incarcerated. — Map (db m19012) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Marblehead — Johnson's Island Prison — 1862-1865 |
| | [Marker Front]:
CONSTRUCTION
In 1861 it became apparent to Federal authorities that the war would not end quickly and plans were made for construction of prisons to permanently house thousands of Confederate prisoners. Lieutenant Colonel William Hoffman was assigned the task of managing the new Federal prison system. Hoffman arrived in Sandusky in October of 1861 and began the search for an appropriate prison site. Traveling around the Lake Erie islands aboard the Island . . . — Map (db m19018) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Marblehead — 6-62 — The Keeper's House — Ohio Historical Marker |
| | Built in 1822, this native limestone structure was the home of Benajah Wolcott, first keeper of the Marblehead Lighthouse (originally called the Sandusky Bay Light), and his second wife, Rachel Miller Wolcott. Benajah maintained the lighthouse from 1822 until his death ten years later. After Benajah's passing the U.S. Government appointed Rachel as the keeper, making her the first female lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes. The building is the oldest known residence still standing in Ottawa . . . — Map (db m18980) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Port Clinton — American Expedition 1813 — Across the De Lery Portage |
| | From Fort Seneca to Detroit and the invasion of Canada as noted in Captain R.B. McAfee's history 1816.
Major General Harrison on receiving word of Commodore Perry's victory proceeded to Fort Stephenson and "issued his orders for the movement of the troops and transportation of the provision military stores etc. to the margin of the lake preparatory to their embarkation."
The troops were marched down the old Sandusky-Scioto trail to its northern terminus on Lake Erie.
"In bringing . . . — Map (db m18252) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Port Clinton — C47 — End of Harrison's Trail In Ohio - War of 1812 |
| | Six miles east is the western boundary of "The Fire Lands" - given by Connecticut to its citizens for property destroyed by the British during the Revolution. — Map (db m18174) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Port Clinton — Fort Sites / De Lery Portage |
| | South face:Fort SitesFort Sites
Here near the peninsula carrying place where earlier British traders may have had a post, French soldiers built in 1750 and 1751 a small palisaded fort later called "Sandoski." Lt. deLery reported that the fort was in ruins by 1754.
In September, 1764, British soldiers under the command of Colonel John Bradstreet. While attempting to quell the Indians during Pontiac's Conspiracy. Began to construct a fort 3/4 of a mile west of the . . . — Map (db m20524) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Port Clinton — Old French War - Pontiac's Conspiracy - Revolutionary War / French Expedition, 1754 |
| | East Face:Old French War - Pontiac's Conspiracy - Revolutionary 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 watercraft were . . . — Map (db m20516) |
| Ohio (Ottawa County), Port Clinton — War of 1812 |
| | Captain Barclay's British Fleet transporting General Proctor's British army sailed up the Sandusky River to make their assault on Fort Stephenson August 1st and 2nd 1813 of which General Sherman wrote:
"The defense of Fort Stephenson by Croghan and his gallant little band was the necessary precursor to Perry's victory on the lake and of General Harrison's triumphant victory at the Battle of the Thames. These assured to our immediate ancestors the mastery of the Great West and from that day . . . — Map (db m18257) |
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