Fort Recovery Monument Park in Fort Recovery, Ohio

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Coordinates: 40.41319, -84.77581
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Fort Recovery Monument Park has a large obelisk which was built over coffins containing the remains of those men and camp followers that were killed at the Battle of the Wabash(Also kown as St Clair's Defeat) on 4 November, 1791.
It also contains the remains of those soldiers killed three years later during hte battle of Ft Recovery in July, 1794.
The remains were found and collected at the original battle site in 1858, and originally buried at the Old Pioneer Cemetery. They were then moved to the current location in 1891 and re-buried. The total number of remains entombed underneat the monument is about 1,200. The monument itself has names of those officers killed in the first battle inscribed on it's sides.