The site of Ohio’s only Revolutionary War fort will soon be getting a long-awaited addition: The fort itself.
During"Revolution on the Tuscarawas," an annual American Revolution reenactment in Bolivar, the Ohio History Connection and Zoar Community Association announced redevelopment plans for Fort Laurens.
In 1915, the Ohio General Assembly passed legislation to purchase the land in Northern Tuscarawas County with the intention of restoring the property. During the American Centennial in 1976, a museum was added at the site. For the past several decades, the Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation have been educating and fundraising to make the fort a reality.
The base, named Fort Laurens for Continental Congress President Henry Laurens, was active from 1778-1779. It hosted a diverse cross-section of early America, including men, women, teamsters and at least one freed former enslaved person. Ancestors of U.S. Presidents Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley were also present at the site during their military careers.
Megan Wood, the incoming executive director of the Ohio History Connection, added, “It is a piece of that larger American story, but it also shows what's happening in the Ohio Country at this time, the intersection of the British, the American, the American Indian. So it tells a lot of those different stories all together.”
The redevelopment is in its early planning stages, but will also include plans for the museum and exhibits, in addition to the fort reconstruction. “If all those folks could come together to build a fort by hand, hacking it out of the woods [in 1778], we think our government and private individuals and our committee can come together in the same spirit of cooperation and rebuild the fort again,” Markijohn said.
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