Tag: fort laurens

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August 7, 2026

Fort Laurens Renovation Project Week of August 3-7, 2026

Week of August 3-7, 2026 Aug 7 This week I can finally share some of the data we have collected from the post molds about the construction of the fort. This data comes from the northern wall and bastion, where we uncovered 201 post molds across twenty-nine 2m x 1m units. We then took the […]
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July 24, 2026

Fort Laurens Renovation Project Week of July 20

Week of July 20th-24th Jul 24 Welcome to the Fort Laurens Underground blog! This edition, ‘This Week at Fort Laurens" will come out on Fridays, detailing a bit of the work we completed for the week along with any interesting finds and the history behind them. But first, a very brief backstory of the fort […]
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April 21, 2025

New Digs at Fort Laurens

  How often do you see a specific moment in time? This Revolutionary War period musket ball from Fort Laurens was found during Heidelberg University’s Center for Historic and Military Archaeology’s 1999-2000 research project.  Check out the ricochet scar on the upper right side, it has the appearance of a cresting wave. Someone in the […]
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November 25, 2024

Intern Spotlight: Jessica Hammond, Archaeology

Intern Spotlight: Jessica Hammond, Archaeology This fall, we were lucky to have intern, Jessica Hammond, join us for a special project for one of our sites, Fort Laurens. We hope you enjoy hearing about her project! This autumn, I journeyed into the world of archaeological collections through an internship with the Ohio History Connection. From […]
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February 13, 2024

Fort Laurens Musket Ball Concentration: Evidence of a fight or fiasco?

Fort Laurens Musket Ball Concentration: Evidence of a fight or fiasco?   In 2004, Ohio History Connection (OHC) archaeologists and dedicated volunteers moved 50,000 pounds of dirt during an excavation of a musket ball concentration at Ohio’s only Revolutionary War period fort site, Fort Laurens State Memorial in Bolivar, OH. The concentration was discovered through […]