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Sunday, October 4 – Family Archaeological Fun Day
Lots of educational and fun activities, displays and speakers are planned for this fall day. In the meantime, monthly speakers at our museum will lead up to this October festival which culminates our 2009 season.
Sunday, June 14, 3:00 –“From Fort Loramie to Fort Recovery”
is the topic of the presentation to be given by Ken Soward of Fort Loramie. A former American History teacher and present day history buff and artifact collector, (He is presently the president of the Blue Jacket Chapter of Archaeologists of Ohio,) Ken will share interesting information about the connections of Fort Loramie and Fort Recovery. He will also have on display his artifact collection which is sure to interest both collectors and non-collectors. You won’t want to miss this program! The program is at 3:00 in the Community Room of the museum. It is free for patrons. For other guests, the $3.00 charge will include admission to the museum, fort and other buildings as well.
Sunday, July 12, 2:00 - Brad Lepper!
This speaker is a curator for the Ohio Historical Society and an occasional Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University. His primary areas of interest include North America’s Ice Age peoples, Ohio’s magnificent mounds and earthworks, and the history of Archaeology. His well known research includes excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon and discovery of the Great Hopewell Road, featured in a recent documentary. His book, Ohio Archaeology, is widely known and respected beyond the circles of archaeologists. This presentation will be a great lead up to our big Archaeological Family Fun Day scheduled for October.
Sign Up for the St Clair Run/Walk! (July 18!)
Forms for this 5-K Mercer Health Challenge Run are available at the Mercer Health Challenge Website – www.mercerhealth5kchallenge.com
- $15 - pre-registration with a St. Clair 5K t-shirt (red/white/blue & cannon)
- $8 - pre-registration, no shirt.
- $10 - registions on race day, no shirt
- June 27th - Deadline for pre-registrations
For more information call 419-375-2123. Many out-of-town runners and their families come to our community that day. Come join them! Or come out and cheer them on!
Thank You Patrons! YOU are SO APPRECIATED! 2009 (#)=2008
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Little Turtle |
Blue Jacket |
Presidential |
St. Clair |
Anthony Wayne |
Butler |
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Using the Welcome Video
Kevin (Keller) and I are finding that the Welcome Video, created by Gena Wendel, Nicole Dilworth and Stacy Gehle and narrated by Erika Muhlenkamp, is VERY useful and effective, especially when we are having a number of visitors and can’t give everyone individual tours and much information. The young gals mentioned above and their teacher, Diane McClung, should be nominated for a public service award! Their work is so professional, and now we are finding out just how useful! Thanks to all of them!
Thank YOU Fort Recovery Car Club
The Fort Recovery Car Club recently made a donation of $100 to the Fort Recovery Museum and another $100 to the Fort Recovery Historical Society! What a generous and thoughtful gift. Thank you to all who participate with and support that group and their activities. When they have their evening car shows, we are happy to have our museum open and available for all of those visitors who come to our town. We are lucky to have such a community minded organization in our town!
Red Haired Nance Unveiling/Dedication – a success
Check out Jeff Pontsler’s website of Grand Lake Independent - www.grandlakeindependent.com! Jeff took a wide array of amazing pictures when he was here that day. I hope you have access to a computer and check them out. We have linked Jeff’s site from our Museum website, so you can get there that way too!
Speaking of our Website
Rich Wood manages the museum’s website, and just recently we (Chris Keller, Rich and I) met to discuss ways to make our website as valuable as it can be for people who look for the site or who google a topic that brings up our site (like “St. Clair, Anthony Wayne, Little Turtle etc We are taking advantage of being able to hook into You-tube and other popular sites that contain videos/blogs/other information etc that have pertinence to Fort Recovery history and our town’s varied attractions.
Upcoming Tours:
- Auglaize Industries – special needs adult clients – June 5
- Widow and Widowers of Celina – June 10
Father’s Day Special – Fort Recovery Coffee Mugs - $5.00
On Sale for this month = almost 40% discount – Regular price $8:00, on sale for $5.00! (below cost) Make it extra special and fill it with Hershey Kisses! What dad or grandpa wouldn’t like that?
What do You Know about This? Calvary horse bits made in Fort Recovery?
Andrea Churchill, Ash Flat Arkansas called to say she had purchased a box of horse equipment at an auction, and in the collection she found a horse bit that was stamped “. Fort Recovery”. She said the period preceding FR denotes “property of”. The bit is aluminum cast and is too small for her horses. She suspected that the bit was for a Calvary horse. (Her grandpa was in the Calvary and still has Calvary bits.. This one matched those from his collection.) Andrea is willing to donate the bit to our local historical society if we can verify that it was made here in FR. So this is our mystery that we need help solving. Were there bits (probably for Calvary horses) made here in Fort Recovery? Let us know if/what you know about this. 419-375-4649! Happy history hunting! nk
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Museum Blog
Built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, the museum building first housed the local library and numerous artifacts from the local area. In the 1970s it became the Fort Recovery State Museum.
The museum features Anthony Wayne’s legionnaires and a typical Native American from the 1790s. Life size mannequins show an officer & artillerymen operating a Howitzer cannon (left), an infantryman making use of the stockade, and a dragoon complete with his horse.
Information and maps explain both the Harmar and St. Clair campaigns along with a detailed explanation of Wayne’s campaign and the construction of the fort. The original flagstaff from the fort as well as many artifacts from the 1790 campaigns are proudly displayed.
Fort Recovery was a pivotal point on the Greenville Treaty Line. A print of the signing of the treaty is shown along with the original stake used to mark the treaty line.
Portraits of the battles as depicted by historian and author Robert VanTrees and portraits of Wayne, St. Clair, Little Turtle, Blue Jacket, and Buckongahelas adorn the walls.
Visit the balcony to see a large display of prehistoric artifacts found in the local area. Artifacts date back to 14,000 years B.C.
Available in the gift shop are books, maps, postcards and other items relevant to Fort Recovery along with other souvenirs.
