South face:Fort SitesFort SitesHere near the peninsula carrying place where earlier British traders may have had a post, French soldiers built in 1750 and 1751 a small palisaded fort later called "Sandoski." Lt. deLery reported that the fort was in ruins by 1754.

In September, 1764, British soldiers under the command of Colonel John Bradstreet. While attempting to quell the Indians during Pontiac's Conspiracy. Began to construct a fort 3/4 of a mile west of the old French fort, but work was soon abandoned.

West face:De Lery Portage
Near this point was the southern terminus of a French and Indian portage by which travelers crossed the peninsula to the mouth of the Portage River and Lake Erie.

The portage is named after French Lt. Joseph G. Chaussegros de Lery who described it in his journal and who used the crossing in 1754 and 1755 on his way to and from Detroit.

French and Indians traveling by canoe along the south shore of Lake Erie, to or from the Sandusky - Scioto Waterway, or between Fort Duquesne and Detroit, used this carrying place to avoid the more dangerous water route around the Peninsula.

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