Fort Winchester

Information from Darnell's Journal:

[Oct.]19th. The fort was finished and christened "Fort Winchester" It is composed of four block-houses, a hospital and storehonse, and picketed between each block-house, containing about a quarter of an acre.

Fort Winchester is situated near the point between the Maumee and Auglaze rivers, and is a handsome place; it is predicted by some to become in a few years a populous city. The greater part of the land in the adjacent country is rich, and when improved will be equal, if not superior, to any in the western country. The Auglaze River empties into Great Miami, which runs a north course to Fort Winchester, and is navigable a considerable distance. [Source]

"We visited the site of Fort Winchester a little above Defiance on the bank of the Au Glaize and found the remains of many of the pickets protruding from the ground. Across a ravine just above the fort was the garrison burying ground."  "...obtained a comprehensive view of the two streams at their confluence the site of the fort and the village of Defiance." [Source - Also Source of Illustration Below]

"During the War of 1812 Gen Winchester built a picketed fort here on the hank of the Auglaize a short distance south of the other fort [Defiance] and called it Fort Winchester where he was encamped till he left for Michigan." [Source]