Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . R.; Mrs. L. A. Dickinson, RegentGeorge Croghan Chapter, D. A. R.; H. Dorr, Mrs. S. Brinkerhoff, Little, Mrs. H. G. Edgerton, Mrs. , Mrs. Otto Davis, Mrs. C. R.* Lester (Detroit), Miss Julia Haynes and Miss Lucy E. Keeler—all members of G. A. R. Hon. J. C. Wonders, Chief•of the Ohio State Highway Commission, was also the guest of ColonelHayes. The entire party were comfortably bestowed in automobiles andwhisked over the country roads, to the site of Fort Seneca, within thepresent precincts of the village of Old Fort, romantical
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . R.; Mrs. L. A. Dickinson, RegentGeorge Croghan Chapter, D. A. R.; H. Dorr, Mrs. S. Brinkerhoff, Little, Mrs. H. G. Edgerton, Mrs. , Mrs. Otto Davis, Mrs. C. R.* Lester (Detroit), Miss Julia Haynes and Miss Lucy E. Keeler—all members of G. A. R. Hon. J. C. Wonders, Chief•of the Ohio State Highway Commission, was also the guest of ColonelHayes. The entire party were comfortably bestowed in automobiles andwhisked over the country roads, to the site of Fort Seneca, within thepresent precincts of the village of Old Fort, romantically located on thebanks of the Sandusky River. Here the party traced the lines of the oldfort, under the guidance of some of the elder inhabitants, one a genialwell-preserved gentlemen, upwards of four score years of age, Mr. HiramRisden, born and raised on the spot, and who as a boy saw the fortpicket walls and blockhouse defenses still standing. Mr. Risdens father—Joel Risden—located here, coming from Vermont in 1810. This was 320. Col. Webb C. Hayes. Editorialana. 301 the headquarters of General Harrison, during an important period ofthe 1812 war. The defense known as Fort Seneca was erected early inJuly, 1813, and contained within its enclosure about one and one-halfacres of land. The position of the fort was both a picturesque anda practical one, being situated upon the bank about forty feet above thebed of the Sandusky river. On the return to Fremont, the party made a stop at the locationof Balls Battlefield, where Colonel Ball with a detachment of troops,on their way to the Maumee, a day or two before the assault on FortStephenson, met a band of Tecumsehs Indians. The encounter wassomewhat unique in as much as the mounted soldiers with drawn sabrescharged into the Indian ranks and cut them to pieces before the savagescould get their flint lock guns into working order. The site of Ballsbattle is to be appropriately monumented by the Daughters of theAmerican Revolu
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