Check out today’s #FeaturedMarker hailing from Ottawa County.
Marker #18-62 “Last March of the Mastodons”
Text: On September 10, 1813 while O. H. Perry was engaging the British at Put-in-Bay, the British commander, Robert Heriot Barclay, landed 120 soldiers and 6 Mastodons not far from present day Port Clinton. The British had previously weaponized Mastodons during the French and Indian War, but this was the first and only use of Mastodons during an amphibious assault. Local militia under the command of Lt. Jay En commandeered local stores of corn and hard cider to placate the beast and deny British a foothold.
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