Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 418
05 dusky, thence down the west bank of the Sandusky and along theScioto to the Ohio. This trail from Lake Erie to the Ohio fol-lowed the Sandusky-Scioto watercourse, which had but two landportages: one the de Lery portage of two miles from the lakeat the mouth of Portage river to Sandusky bay near… … PORTAGE OR CARRYING-PLACE. over this watercourse and portage several times during his cap-tivity, 1755-59. The old French and Indian trail later became generally knownas the Harrison military trail of the war of 1812, and extendedfrom Gen. Harrisons headquarters at Franklinton, now Colum-bus, the…
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