Defiance
Archibald Worthington / Worthington’s Cemetery
Archibald Worthington (1818-1895) was a freed slave from Virginia, a Civil War veteran, and prominent landowner in Highland Township.
Daeida Hartell Wilcox Beveridge / Amelia Swilley Bingham
Hicksville, OH
Born in Hicksville in 1862, Daeida H.W. Beveridge co-developed and named, in 1887, the Los Angeles, California, suburb of Hollywood,...
Evansport
Evansport is named after brothers Amos and Albert G. Evans who, with Jacob Coy, had the village surveyed next to the Tiffin River on...
Fort Winchester
Defiance, OH
General William Henry Harrison ordered the construction of Fort Winchester at the beginning of October 1812 and it was completed October 15.
Spemica Lawba-Johnny Logan
Defiance, OH
In September 1786, Captain Benjamin Logan of Kentucky captured a young Indian boy during a raid across the Ohio River on the Machachac...
Tale of Ensign James Liggett / Major Adam Charles Muir, 41st Regiment of Foot
After American militia troops forcibly ended the 1812 siege of Fort Wayne, General James Winchester’s Army of the Northwest marched down...
Winchester’s Camp No. 2 / Preston Island
Defiance, OH
After completing Fort Winchester, Brigadier General James Winchester ordered his troops to cross to the north side of the Maumee River.
Winchester’s Camp No. 3/Fort Starvation / The Old Kentucky Burial Grounds
Camp No. 3 was located about six miles below Fort Winchester on the north side of the Maumee River.