Reburial At Beaver Dams

Picturesque spots of the North: Historical and descriptive sketches...:

"When excavations were being made for the Welland Canal, some human bones were found at Beaver Dams with militia buttons and scraps of military accoutrements, which showed that they were the remains of Canadian soldiers killed in the fight which had taken place there. These remains were collected, enclosed in a walnut casket, and buried where they had been found, more than two thousand people assembling to witness the ceremony. Over the spot a small granite monument was placed, with the simple inscription 'Beaver Dams, June 24th ,1813.'"

In 1811 Stricken Down...

...In The Performance Of Duty

In tribute to

Major Joseph Hamilton Daviess,

Grand Master of Masons in Kentucky,

who fell in battle here, and

to the many Freemasons

of General Harrison's command

whose valor is held

in grateful remembrance.

Joseph Daviess died November 6/7, 1811 ...(he) lived nine hours after the action... 

Ohio's First Battle Site - 1812

The first War of 1812 battle* on Ohio soil was fought here when about 60 exhausted citizen soldiers were ambushed by about 130 Indians on September 29.  Twenty men held the Indians at bay in a cabin while the main body escaped by boat to Cedar Point.  Two days later the defenders were rescued.  Forty Indians including several chiefs and 8 Americans were killed in the skirmish, neither a victory nor a defeat for either side.

*Battle of Marblehead Peninsula/Bull Island (see additional information here)