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Flashback Friday -- Toledo, Style -- Here is a drawing of Fort Industry, in Toledo, Ohio. Fort Industry was a stockade erected by General Anthony Wane, in the year 1794, as a safeguard against the British, who then held Fort Miami. It was garrisoned by a company of United States troops, under the command of Captain J. Rhea, who held it until after the evacuation of all the British Posts in the northwest in the year 1796, and Act which was brought about by the operations of Jay's Treaty with Great Britain. In July 1805, the treaty was negotiated at Fort Industry by which was extinguished by Indiana title to all the western part of the reserve known as the Fire Lands, a tract of about 500,000 acres, granted by the State of Connecticut to the sufferers by fire from the British troops in the incursions into the state during the War of the Revolution. The Fort Industry was probably established and occasionally occupied as an outpost of Detroit, the nearest and most important regularly garrisoned army post, or it may have been an outpost of Fort Wayne on the upper Maumee. It was occupied temporarily from time to time as conditions required the presence at this point of US soldiers. The most important event occurring at Fort Industry was the Indian Treaty in July, 1805. On the site of Fort Industry was probably an English trading post or Indian supply station established about 1670 by the French (Bliven), abandoned in 1796 by the British, but later repaired or rebuilt by US troops and first occupied by them in the spring of 1803 and thereafter as required until 1808 or possibly until the War of 1812, when it fell into the hands of the British and later, of the Indians who were driven out by US troops under General Wilkinson, in January 1813. I was unable to find any information of a definite character concerning Fort Industry's history, so we must assume it was allowed to gradually decay and finally made way for the Fort Industry block of 1842-1843. -- www.thegenealogyinvestigator.com -- #toledohistory #historynerd #genealogytribe #toledoohio #fortindustry #earlytoledohistory #lucascountyhistory #ustroops #warintoledo #tradingposts #ancestry #genealogy https://www.instagram.com/p/CgB-K9Hu8UI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=