Fort Brown was built in 1812 by a "Col. Brown." Together with Fort Jennings and Fort Amanda to the south, and Fort Winchester to the north, it guarded the army supply route into the Maumee Valley. In 1813, Gen. Greene Clay's Kentucky Militia, . . . — — Map (db m18989) HM
One of a chain of posts built
along the Auglaize River by
General William Henry Harrison
in his campaigns against the
British and Indians in the
War of 1812.
Presented to the State of
Ohio in the Sesquicentennial
Year of Statehood. . . . — — Map (db m18954) HM
The Indians in early times plied the Auglaize River as they traveled between the Ohio and the Great Lakes. The French, the British, and then the Americans came into the valley as they succeeded in conquering the land. In the Indian Wars (1790 - . . . — — Map (db m19327) HM