A British Outpost
British Troops constructed Fort Miamis on the banks of the Maumee River between April and August of 1794 with the help of local American Indians. Fort Miamis featured four bastions, a river battery, barracks, officers' quarters, supply buildings and a number of shops. The formidable outpost housed over 130 British troops who manned 14 cannons protecting it from all directions. Approaching by land, hostile troops faced an abatis - a 25-foot deep trench lined with rows of 12-inch thick stakes. Archaeological excavations in 1982 unearthed nails, wall timbers, bottle fragments, regimental buttons, and other artifacts. All that remains today are the earthwork trenches dug around the fort in 1794.| HM Number | HM1GFZ |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 at 6:31pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 17T E 281019 N 4605694 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 41.57295000, -83.62653333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 41° 34.377', W 83° 37.592' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 41° 34' 22.62" N, 83° 37' 35.52" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 419 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 675 Michigan Ave, Maumee OH 43537, US |
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