Discover Fort Meigs: Ohio's War of 1812 Battlefield
Learn more about Fort Meigs Historic Site in Perrysburg, Ohio. Originally built to defend Ohio from British invasion during the War of 1812, the fort now stands as a fantastic living history museum. The site is visited by thousands of people from around the globe each year and hosts a variety of reenactments, workshops, and other special events. Dedicated staff and volunteers help bring history to life in order to tell the story of the brave men and women who lived, fought, and died there over 200 years ago.
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Fort Meigs & the War of 1812 | NewsDepth: Know Ohio
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Revolution on the Ohio Frontier
While Fort Meigs is a reconstructed fort from the War of 1812, it sometimes stands in for other 18th and 19th century activities. In August 2019, Fort Meigs Historic Site hosted Revolution on the Ohio Frontier with hundreds of Revolutionary War reenactors coming from around the country to bring history to life.
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Gone, and forgotten, in Ohio (the graves of Heroes from The War of 1812)
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of our last war against England. Traveling around Ohio you can find some obvious, and not so obvious, locations where forts from the War of 1812 once stood. Here's a tribute to the Heroes of 1812 who died in the Buckeye State. Some of their names we know. Others are gone, and forgotten, in Ohio. This video is dedicated to the service of these veterans. (Video recorded July 2011; December 2011.)
Scenic Stops: Re-enactors of Fort Meigs S2
The re-enactors of Fort Meigs were featured in season two of Scenic Stops, an original program on WBGU-TV in Bowling Green, Ohio. The fort, located in Perrysburg, Ohio, presents the history of the fort, featuring over 600 re-enactors, who fight and live as the soldiers of the fort did 200 years ago, bringing the history of the fort to life. Fort Meigs was originally constructed during the War of 1812, and proved as the turning point for the war in the Northwest. WBGU-TV would like to thank Dan Woodward, Aaron Gelb and Fort Meigs for letting us explore your scenic stop!
Fort Recovery - NW Ohio's Historic Link to the Washington Administration
Produced with a SWIVL camera on 3/5/2016 in Fort Recovery, Ohio. This was a TEST video for my 8th grade students.
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Governor Arthur St. Clair led the bulk of the American army from Fort Washington (present-day Cincinnati, Ohio) north with the hope of establishing solid networks of passable roads and rivers that connected to the St. Mary's River, Maumee River, and the Great Lakes system of water transportation.
At present-day Fort Recovery, Ohio, St. Clair and his men camped along the Wabash River (which was mistaken for the St. Mary's) in November 1791. The force of 1200 soldiers, 150 militia, and another 150-200 camp followers (wives/children of the officers) were ambushed by Native American Indians led by Chief Little Turtle (Miami) and Chief Blue Jacket (Shawnee). The ambush quickly turned to a massacre that left over 900 soldiers killed or severely wounded. Survivors attempted to make it back to Fort Washington as quickly as possible in the frantic attack.
When word of the attack reached President Washington action had to be taken because the majority of the entire American army had been eliminated, the NW Territory (Ohio Country) was in crisis, and European nations anxiously hoped to pounce on the region and/or fledgling American republic.
Washington convinced the US Congress to increase and train a renewed American army force under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran, Anthony Wayne.
Over the next two years, Wayne trained his legions of new recruits and focused specifically on Indian-fighting strategies. Wayne arrived in the Ohio Country and marched to the site of the previous massacre at the Wabash River. After constructing blockhouses and establish solid fields of fire, Wayne's men were able to defeat a force of nearly 2500 Indians (among them were Little Turtle & Shawnee's tribes) in 1794. Wayne wanted to secure victory at the Wabash to prove a point to the Indian tribes. The site would henceforth be known as Fort Recovery--having recovered the ground and remains of the 1791 US Army fallen.
Wayne continued throughout the Ohio Country, and his expeditions culminated with a major victory at Fallen Timbers (near present-day Perrysburg, Ohio) and the Treaty of Greenville which would aim to end fighting with tribes in Ohio and increase American settlement in the Ohio Country.
The remains of the dead would be buried in a mass grave in Fort Recovery, Ohio, and the US Congress supported the adoption of an official memorial at the site in 1912. President Taft signed the measure, and construction was completed by 1913. Today the memorial includes the names of the officers that fell in 1791 at the Wabash River battlefield, and each Memorial Day the Fort Recovery community commemorates all of the fallen with nearly 900 American flags at the memorial park location.
Crestview Middle School - 8th Grade American History
Mr. James Lautzenheiser
(Fort Recovery Museum)
Scenic Stops: Fort Meigs
The Ohio Historical Society started the painstaking work of reconstructing Fort Meigs in the late 1960s and opened the museum to the public in 1974. The reconstruction of the fort on its original location was one of the Society's major projects to celebrate the nation's bicentennial. The archaeological excavations associated with the project uncovered significant artifacts that help scholars understand military life during the early republic. The Society marked the completion of major restoration of the reconstructed fort on Saturday May 3, 2003. The project was one of the largest of the many legacy projects the Society planned to commemorate the state's bicentennial year. The $6.2 million renovation included construction of a Museum & Education Center, new and renovated exhibits in the museum and four fort blockhouses, reconstruction of the stockade and outdoor interpretive signs and landscaping. The museum building is 14,000 square feet and cost $2.9 million. For more information, visit Fort Meigs was featured in Season 1 of Scenic Stops, a program locally produced by WBGU-TV highlighting landmarks and individuals local to Northwestern/North Central Ohio, Southern Michigan and Eastern Indiana.
Ohio Marker - Wood County (Col.E.D. Wood)
Daughters of the War of 1812 Marker -
Memorial on Wood County Courthouse for: Eleazer Derby Wood (1783 - September 17, 1814) was an American Army officer in the War of 1812. Wood was born in New York City.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1806. He built Fort Meigs in Ohio as well as other fortifications.
Wood was killed during the fighting around Fort Erie, Ontario during the War of 1812. He was the namesake of Fort Wood on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor on which the Statue of Liberty was built. He is also the namesake of Wood County, Ohio.
Scenic Stops 09/20/2012 Episode
This episode of 'Scenic Stops' will feature a tour of Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, a heart-to heart with legendary coach, Lou Holtz, a visit to an unusual convention and end with a bang -- literally!