Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Fort Amanda Site

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,293 words across 11 pages, filed in 1970. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 70000484, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: - In Process X Restricted - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments OWNER'S NAME: State of Ohio LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: 1982 Velma Avenue TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: - Local 039 011 Site CLASSIFICATION Auglaize Both Commercial Religious STATE Military ACCESSIBLE Federal District NATIONAL Entertainment Private Educational Unoccupied Columbus Agricultural Government Transportation CATEGORY Structure NAME Museum Ohio Yes: Scientific CODE Public Industrial Private Residence REGISTER Building STATUS Being Considered COMMON: OWNERSHIP Object Public Acquisition: The Ohio Historical Society DATE Fort Amanda Site OWNER OF PROPERTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ENTRY NUMBER Ohio Route 198 REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TO THE PUBLIC STREET AND NUMBER: (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) LOCATION APR 13 1971 20.11.39.0018 (July 1969) Park Logan Township, 9 mi.
northwest of Wapakoneta (State Memorial) - Moved X Original Site In 1817, 3 years after the Fort was abandoned, the blockhouses and In 1915 the State of Ohio erected a 50-foot stone obelisk at the APR 13 1971 DESCRIPTION REGISTER NATIONAL permanent headstones by the United States government.None of the original Fort structure remains. other buildings provided shelter for the first settlers of the area. The Fort originally consisted of four 2-story unhewn log blockhouses (Check One) house structure.The entire fort was built in 1813. - Unexposed CONDITION Unaltered Ruins Excellent RECEIVED connected by a high palisade.In the center was a large ware- Good - Pre-Columbian! - 15th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric - Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Fort Amanda was built during the fall, winter and spring of 1812-1813 British and Indians in August, 1812. Town, near the head of navigation of the Auglaize River during the last days of 1812 under the direction of Col. Thomas Poague, who named the installation after his wife, Amanda. Following the siege of Fort Meigs and Stephenson, the Battle of Lake Erie, and the American victory at Thames in Canada during 1813, Here at an improvised hospital approximately 75 men died of wounds Fort Amanda was abandoned in 1814 and deeded to the State of Ohio by a significant part of Ohio's early military history.
APR 13 1971 1813 Conservation Engineering Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Commerce losophy REGISTER Religion/Phi Aboriginal Science Art NATIONAL Theater Transportation Agriculture Literature Communications Music itarian Sculpture Invention Industry Ft.Amanda became a way station for troops returning from the North. Landscape Social/Human- Political association with William Henry Harrison, the Fort Amanda site remains Capt.Daniel Hosbrook and his Hamilton County Militia Company occupied by President Madison to recapture Detroit, which had fallen to the Education the site of important military action.
thaw permitted navigation downstream to Fort Meigs Perrysburg), the post during the first half of 1813.The four blockhouses, connect- at the order of William Henry Harrison.He had begun to create a Construction of the Fort began at the site of an Indian village, Tawa the Fort Amanda Memorial Association in 1915.A second tract of Because of its importance during the War of 1812 and because of its 1and was deeded tothe State in 1923. PERIOD (Check One or More asAppropriate) system of fortified supply depots en Ohio as soon as he was charged ing palisades and warehouse were completed in April. Livestock was RECEIVED butchered and packed and provisions stockpiled until spring when the or disease.They were buried in graves near the Fort.

The rest of the file

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 4506 760 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: FORM PREPARED BY 1982 Velma Avenue CITY OR TOWN: 12.
STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law The National Register 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: 10.3 Columbus 039 Degrees LONGITUDE The Ohio Historical Society Name 3/15/71 Seconds LATITUDE Minutes Title COUNTY ORGANIZATION DATE STATE REGISTER Local NATIONAL ATTEST: CORNER "Fort Amanda" State Memorial pamphlet, pub. by The Ohio Historical Society.
CODE Ohio Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Judith Kitchen LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Lathrop, C. S. "History of Fort Amanda." (uncertain origin and date). 4/13/11 v REGISTER NATIONAL APR 13 1971 5.26.70..13 6~16-71 Ohio Title: Loc. SPENCERVILLE QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OF OHIO UNITED STATES APR 13 1971 DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Ohio Route 198 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM ENTRY NUMBER NAME NOV 1 0 1970 SMazusin: naf GEORGE B. HARTZOG, JB. LD: Mr. Melvin Ohio Historical Center, Colunbas, Ohio 43211 Vashington, D. C. 10/27/70 United States Senate Ross County, Ohio Morgan County, Ohio Jackson County, Ohio Franklin County, Ohio Ohio Co.
Land Office Auglaize County, Ohio Highland County, Ohio Mercer County, Ohio Fort St.
Clair Site Preble County, Ohio Friends (Quaker) Meeting House Jefferson County, Ohio Warren County, Ohio Hamilton County, Ohio Wyandot County, Ohio Gallia County, Ohio Brown County, Ohio Adena Hanby House Tarlton Cross Mound Rankin House Flint Ridge Buckeye Furnace Putnam House OHIO Fort Jefferson Site Glendower Buffington Island Indian Mill Seip Mound Big Bottom William McKinley Tomb Tuscarawas County, Ohio Gnadenhutten Massacre Site Hiamisburg Mound Schoanbrunn site Leo Petroglyph Fort Amanda Site Fort Laurens Site Washington County, ohio Proparties added to the National Register of Historic Places McCook House Licking County,Ohio Fort Recovery site Carroll County, ohio Montgomery County, ohio Stowe House Darke County, Ohio Meigs County, Ohio Fort Hill Campball Mound Fairfield County, Ohio Stark County, ohio NOV 1 0 1970 Washington, D. C. SMarusin naf Sincerely yours, GEORGE B.
HARTZOG, JR. LL:Mr. Melvin ce: Mr. Daniel R. Porter, Director, The Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Historical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43211 10/27/70 H30-HR House of Represontatives Entered in the National Register Enelosures Dear Mr. MeCulloah: A leaflet explaining the National Register is enclosed. BASIC FILE the enclosure have bean nominated by the State Lialson Officer Hon.william M.McCulloch Directer Auglaize County, Ohio Darke County, Ohio - Fort St. Clair Site Preble County, Ohio Fort Amanda Site Fort Recovery Site Properties added to the National Register of Historical Places Fort Jefferson Site Mercer County, Ohio April 8, 1971 Dr. W1lliam J. Murtagh, Keeper 801 - 19th Street, N.W. Dear Dr. Bill: Historical Society-owned prehistoric and historic landmarks, which State Daniel R.
Porter Completed National Register Forms for the following State Memorials: LHärrison, William H., Tomb Neo Petroglyph McKinley, William, Tomb VW. E. Snyder, JI., steamboat Putnam House Sincerely, Director Glendower DRP/eg Fort Amanda site REGISTER Buffington Island Indian Mill NATIONAL Fort Recovery site National Register Big Bottom Flint Ridge Buckeye Furnace Fort Laurens site Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Memorials were provisionally added to the National Register November 10,1970 Fort St.Clair site National Register of Historic Places forms and attachments for 3l state/ohio Miamisburg Mound Stowe House Fort Jefferson site McCook House Campbell Mound LRankin House Our House YGnadenhutten Massacre site Interstate 7l and 17th Avenue Schoenbrunn site Friends (Quaker) Meeting House VAdena Washington, D.C.
20006 It gives me a great deal of pleasure to transmit to you herewith completed Hanby House Seip Mound RECEIVED Ohio Company Land Office historical society/ohio historical center/columbus,ohio 4321l/telephone t614) 469-4663 Tarlton Cross Mound

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Logan township, in the words of 1880.

1880, Logan Township

History Of Western Ohio

The next day the neighbors collected and went to the home; there they found the bodies of Mr. Kinnon and two children, all scalped. Mrs. Kinnon was nowhere to be found, so they concluded that she had been taken prisoner. Two little boys of the Kinnon family made their escape through a back window, and reached the nearest settlement in safety.

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