Stop #1 | Address: In front of Elks Lodge No. 83 (320 E. Wyandot Ave., Upper Sandusky)
FORT FERREE – OVERLAND INN
INDIAN SPRING
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Fort Ferree
built by Gen. Harrison’s Army, 1812.
Overland Inn
1814 until 1846, on site Elks Lodge.
Indian Spring
used by Indians 1730 to 1843.
Col. Crawford’s Army drank at Spring
June 4, 1782. Charles Dickens stopped
at Inn and Spring, 1842. Scioto Trail
led past the Indian Spring and Inn.
Erected in 1956 by the Wyandot County Historical Society and the Benevolent Protectorate of Elks Lodge No. 83 (Upper Sandusky). It was refurbished within the past ten years.
Marker Location: East Wyandot Avenue near the current Elks Lodge parking lot.
GPS Location: 40.8275750°N, -83.2776475°W
About “Tracking the Troops, Tippecanoe & Perry, Too!” This driving tour is a five-county collaborative project with Wyandot, Seneca, Sandusky, Wood and Ottawa counties that takes you on a self-guided driving tour following the military trail of General William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812. Harrison would later become the ninth president of the United States and has the shortest presidency, dying from pneumonia one month after having taken the oath of office.
