Illinois. Dept. of Public Works and Buildings, Service, C. M · Springfield, Ill. : Schnepp & Barnes, printers · leaf 14
r magazine remainsalmost intact. Reports mention the fort as the best constructed forti-fication in America. The masonry was so well done that the originalwalls are now easily traceable. Detailed information as to its construc-tion was obtained from a variety of early reminiscences and… … 1« FORT MASSAC. FORT MASSAC is located in Massac county, on the Ohio river,near the present city of Metropolis.It is historically significant. It offered the opening wedgeby which George Rogers Clark entered and conquered from the Britishthe expansive northwest territory composing the present…
