Near OH 212, 0.5 mi. S of Bolivar, Bolivar, Ohio. County/parish: Tuscarawas.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 10, 1970. NRIS 70000518.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Fort Laurens was the only fortification built within the current boundaries of Ohio during the American Revolutionary War. It was constructed in the fall of 1778 on the Tuscarawas River near what is now Bolivar, Ohio. Fort Laurens was besieged by Indigenous and British forces for several weeks in the winter of 1779. The fort was ordered abandoned in August 1779. The site is now owned by the Ohio History Connection. None of the original fort remains above ground.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991768