521 E Columbus Ave, Bellefontaine, Ohio
The Logan County History Center will host local archeologist, Greg Shipley, will be presenting a program “Investigating Early Military Related Sites in Western Ohio”.
Long before Ohio entered into the union in 1803, many frontier forts had been built and numerous military activities had already transpired, in what was a part of the Old Northwest Territory, back then. Even after Ohio had become a state, conflicts with Great Britain and the Native American tribes brought about several more years of military activities and related turmoil in the western part of our state.
This PowerPoint presentation will allow program participants to see British army buttons found on a Logan County site, that are from the same units that had fought at Bunker Hill and a pewter “USA” button from a coat that had been worn by one of General Washington’s Continental Army troops.
During the summer of 2021, Mr. Shipley’s group of amateur archaeologists located where one of the wooden stockade walls had been built at one of the outposts that was constructed by General Mad Anthony” Wayne’s troops, in October 1795. This program includes images and explanations about thousands of 1790s Wayne’s Legion and War of 1812 period artifact finds and about the military site locations where they were recovered.
Another discussion subject will be “Why have so many Civil War buttons and military belt buckles been found scattered across our part of the state, when no large battles connected to the “War between the States” had occurred in Ohio?”
If you are interested in military history, you should enjoy this presentation. Admission is free.
