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Fort Drummond Burial Ground

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Location	:	Drummond, Chippewa County, USA
Coordinate	:	45.9767820, -83.8688140
Description	:	Following the end of the War of 1812, when England agreed to surrender its forts in U.S. to the United States, British soldiers at Mackinac Island relocated to Drummond Island, which their commander bought from the chief of the Chippewa/Ojibwa Indians for approximately $100. In July, 1815 the Union Jack was raised on Drummond's southwest shore and the British established "Fort Collier." They named Drummond Island in honor of Sir Gordon Drummond, their Naval Commander, Chief of Canadian Forces, and Governor General of Canada (who probably never set foot on the island). The British soldiers worked for 13 years there to... Read More	Following the end of the War of 1812, when England agreed to surrender its forts in U.S. to the United States, British soldiers at Mackinac Island relocated to Drummond Island, which their commander bought from the chief of the Chippewa/Ojibwa Indians for approximately $100. In July, 1815 the Union Jack was raised on Drummond's southwest shore and the British established "Fort Collier." They named Drummond Island in honor of Sir Gordon Drummond, their Naval Commander, Chief of Canadian Forces, and Governor General of Canada (who probably never set foot on the island). The British soldiers worked for 13 years there to build a fort, barracks, storehouses, and dwellings (constituting a small village with streets) out of native clay, stone, and timber, with established gardens and grounds. But in 1822 an official surveyor's ship established once and for all that Drummond Island belonged to the U.S., not Canada. The British troops departed their garrison in autumn, 1828. The post cemetery, located at the site of the fort, was established soon after the British arrived on Drummond Island. It is estimated that around 300 people were buried there. The first harsh winter of British occupation claimed the lives of nearly half the post's residents (most of them with the 81st and 37th Regiments), who contracted scurvy from the inadequate food rations. Many burials may have also resulted from a smallpox epidemic that occurred on the island in 1824. Wooden grave markers were routinely used at the Fort Drummond burial ground, so today very few burials are known. The remnants of the years of British occupation today have been overtaken by time and vegetation.

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