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Fort Winchester was constructed on a nearby site in 1812 by Gen. William Henry Harrison. [3] The city of Defiance, Ohio, was founded at the fort's location in 1822. In 1904, the site of the fort was chosen for the Defiance Public Library. Today, a park occupies the site of the fort, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Defiance is a city in and the county seat of Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The population was 17,066 at the 2020 census . It is located at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers about 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Toledo and 47 miles (76 km) northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana , in Ohio's northwestern corner.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Defiance County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Fort Defiance was constructed in 1794 near the confluence of the Auglaize and the Maumee by General Mad Anthony Wayne. Fort Amanda, constructed along the river southwest of Lima in 1812, was an important American outpost during the War of 1812.
Aug. 19, 1794, Wayne built a fort on the bank of the river opposite the rock, named Fort Deposit, because it was a storage depot for ammo and supplies. The fort was abandoned after Wayne bivouacked the wounded there and returned to Fort Defiance. [4] It was used as one of the supports for the now abandoned Interurban Bridge.
Fort Recovery was a United States Army fort ordered built by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne during what is now termed the Northwest Indian War. Constructed from late 1793 and completed in March 1794, the fort was built along the Wabash River , within two miles of what became the Ohio state border with Indiana.
Paulding County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.As of the 2020 census, the population was about 18,806. [1] Its county seat is Paulding. [2] The county was created in 1820 and later organized in 1839. [3]
Fort Defiance (Maryland), a War of 1812 fort on the Elk River; Fort Defiance (Massachusetts), a 19th-century fort in Gloucester; Fort Defiance (Brooklyn), a fort in the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York during the American Revolution; Fort Defiance (Lenoir, North Carolina), former plantation home of General William Lenoir; Fort ...