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Boon decayed when finally abandoned, and today no trace of It ran br found.The n*»t important fort was that at Klttaunlug. erected In 17i» by Colonrl Htepheu llayard and named after the Intrepid officer ahlt; In 176* had destroyed tho great Indian town at this P'acc Colonel Armstrong. This fort waa for ininy years a very prominent po»t on the frontier, iigurlng largely In tho public correspondence of that period. Tho exact location of thl» fort haa boon the subject of much controversy. In former daya the uamlt; Klttannlng was applied to a long stretch of territory. Included In tho manorial grant made under that name by the Penn* At present the name I. limited to the town of Kiiutiuing. Several sites claim the honor of having once contained tho fam us old stockade A prominent loc.il historian who was born near Klttannlng locates the fort t«o miles below the southern extremity of Ktttanti'ng bur « igt. on land recently owned by Peter P McClarren, and the preponderance Of evidence seems lo favor this site.Along about 1790 gpvral small fortywere erected for frontier protection between Port Pitt and Port Armstrong One of them, known as Coe‘ablockhouse, was situated Just by wha: Is now the main street of Springdale, on land which Is still vacant A great spring keep, tha ground In the vicinity well soaked even in dry weather.Port Hull was next above this. a*, the mouth of llvll creek, now Taren-turn Keel* blockhouse catuo next, a , short distance below Freeport. Then the blockhouse on n spot In Preeport which is now on Wafer street, below Fifth Between the mouth of the KIs-kiminetas and Port Armstrong weri two other well known fortified posts. F*rt Nicholson was at the mouth of • hat la now known a, Nicholsons run. seven miles above Freeport Port’ Oreen was alx miles below Klttan-ninr Along the stretch of the Alle-fiheny covered by this sketch there were several other strong houses but the obis mentioned were the l-adlng flares Which were at t mea fort I lie I and garrisoned It Is a striking evl-1 deuce of ihe flight of time that today ' not a lr*co remains of any of thst’Jforts They served tbcfr day. and | like the men who occupied them and i fought about them, they have mol dercd Into Indistinguishable dust, nut | they did g.Hh| service In protecting ’ the people who were laying the foundations of our modern state, and they will never U forgotten for what fher dld- _ C. L. SMITH.The Primitive Clssk.A naturalist, while v tailing Great Han-(Ir. one of those hsUoda of the Indian ocean known as the Celebes or Hplce , Is.snd■. found a curious tltne recorder , lodged at the bouse of a rajab. Two bottles were firmly lashed together and find In a wooden frame. A quantity of black sand ran from one bottle Into the other In Just half au hour, and when the upper bottle waa empty the frame waa reversed. Twelve abort sticks, marked witb notches from on. to twelve, were hung upon a string. A book wn. placed between the stick bearing the number of notch.-* corresponding to the l*.ur last struck and th.. otic to he struck next. The sentry announced the time by striking the hours on a Urge gong. 1
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East Liverpool Evening News Review
East Liverpool, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 12, 1903
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