1916 - To Erect Monument at Harmar's Ford - Homer Gordon Davisson Given Commission DAR

TO ERECT MONUMENT. AT HARMAR'S FORD Homer Gordon Davisson is Given Commission by the D. A. R.'s. The Daugliters of the American revolution have signed a commission with Homer Gordon Davisson, director of the Fort. Wayne Art. school, for a monument to the soldiers who fell in the battle of Harmar's Ford, to be erected. on the Lakeside dike at the scene of the niassacre. - The monument will be unveiled with appropriate ceremonies™ oil the morning of June 8, women's day in the Fort Wayne centennial celebration. The • monument will consist of a boulder five "feet high placed" upón a square foundation of concrete, 'with bronze ,plates upon its side. Mr. Davisson is working on -the casts for these plates at present, and. they will be ready for casting, within a short time. Committees from the Daughters of the. American Revolution have gone over the historical documents and maps thoroughly, and by comparing them the river banks today. liave found practically the spot which was the north of the ford. Here it is the monu| nient will be placed. The work on the foundation will be started within a few weeks, to. give it an opportunity to harden 'sufticiently to | allow the placing of the stone, upon it. The boulder will be stood on end on the foundation, and the plates be placed on the sides: Mr. Davisson -has made a plaster cast from which the bronze • plate will be made, and portrays a scene from •the awful* battle. • • • • • • The view is inade looking down stream, 'and shows 'suggestions of lurking Indians in the shrubbery, while the soldiers, struggling to their waists in the river, are being riddied by the fire of the ambushed Red men. • Another plate will carry an. inscrip- | tion to the memory of the : lieroes who| fell: This will be the first. of many battle sites, in. the vicinity of this city to be' marked by a monument.. Of course Old Fort park has been preserved, but with the exception of 'it and. the •Wayne trace. Monument there are no local historical |

Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel

1916 - To Erect Monument at Harmar's Ford - Homer Gordon Davisson Given Commission DAR

1916 - To Erect Monument at Harmar's Ford - Homer Gordon Davisson Given Commission DAR

Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel