Site of the Second Fort Crawford

1829 – 1856

The first Fort Crawford was built in 1816, and stood on the site now occupied by the "Villa Louis." After a decade of Mississippi River flooding, the U. S. Army relocated Fort Crawford to this site, constructing the ...

To the Memory of Colonel Wm. Crawford

To the Memory

of

Colonel

Wm. Crawford

Revolutionary

War Soldier

Captured

Near this spot

By the Indians

June 7, 1782

was burned

at stake near

Upper Sandusky

June 11, 1782

Marker is on Leesville Road 0.4 miles east of Ohio Route 598, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Soldiers Buried in "Old Town Cemetery" - Crawfordsville, Indiana

This Memorial erected in Memory of the following soldiers who are buried in this Cemetery.

The exact location of some are unknown.

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Revolutionary War

Thomas Mason • James McArthur

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War of 1812

Janson Cory

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Black Hawk War

Elijah Mills

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( Star of the G A R (Grand Army ...

Martin J. Crawford

(1820-1883)

On the adjoining lot stood the large columned home of Martin Jenkins Crawford, Lawyer, Member of the General Assembly of Georgia, twice Judge of the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit, Member United States Congress, and of the provisional Confederate ...

James Crawford Murphy

1807-1894

Benefactor of Murphy College 1890-1936, for whom it was named, this prominent farmer and merchant first come to Sevierville as a tanner in 1833. He returned again to Sevier county 1847 with his wife, Mary “Polly” Smith (1811-1894), settling along ...

Jane Todd Crawford

Jane Todd, pioneer heroine of abdominal surgery, was born 12-23-1763 just west of here across Whistle Creek near Todd’s Mill. She married Thomas Crawford in 1794. In 1809 she rode 60 Mi. on horseback to the home of Dr. Ephraim ...

Colonel William Crawford

In memory of Colonel William Crawford, born in Berkeley County, Virginia, in 1732. Friend of Washington --pioneer -- patriot. This monument is situated 1260 yards S. 69 E. 16' of the spot where he built his log cabin in 1765 ...

Col. William Crawford

Hero of Indian wars, made his home about a half mile from Connellsville after 1766, and was Washington's land agent. During the Revolution, he led a campaign against Ohio Indians; he was captured and killed near Upper Sandusky in 1782.

Marker ...

Grave of Jane Todd Crawford

Pioneer Heroine of Abdominal Surgery

Jane Todd was born in Virginia in 1763. In 1805 she and her husband, Thomas Crawford, moved to Green County, Ky. Suffering from a huge abdominal tumor, she rode 60 miles to Danville, Ky., to ...

Crawford County

This County created by Acts of the Legislature Dec. 9 & 23, 1822, is named for William H. Crawford, Georgia statesman who was Secretary of the Treasury at the time the County was established. At the County Site, Knoxville, lived ...