Identifier: ohioarchological16ohio (find matches)
Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Tours Into Kentucky and the Northwest Territory. 393 ANOTHER EXTENSIVE EARTHWORK AT THE MOUTH OF EAST FORK. The Little Miami in these parts, as it generally does, runs fromnorth to south. The East Fork of that river runs generally from eastto west and discharges its waters into the Miami about 8 miles fromits mouth. In the fork of these rivers is a body of extremely fertile,level land, of about 6 miles in circumference, lying in a kind of triangle,having the Miami on the west, the East Fork on the south and a ridgeof high hills on the northeast. About the center of this beautiful level,
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is a hill about 1-2 a mile long from east to west and 1-2 that distancefrom north to south. At the east end of this hill (which appears as if ithad been actually formed by art) is the body of an old fort, 300 yardseach way, lying exactly square, with a gate in each corner and one ineach broadside, which appear to have been about 50 feet wide each.The walls of the fort are at the bottom about 30 feet over, but areso decayed by time, that they are but low to what they were once. A manon the outside and another on the inside might perhaps see each othersheads. From the north gate proceed two walls about 100 feet apartand extend 750 yards in length till they strike the Miami river. Atthe southwest corner gate is a wall and a ditch of about 100 feet in cir-cumference fronting the entrance. From this gate also, proceeds a ditch, 394 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. which gets deeper as it proceeds extending about a quarter of a mileto water, where the ditch or trench cannot be les

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