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War of 1812 Battle Site

Memorials	:	1
Location	:	Mineyahta-on-the Bay, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.5140350, -82.7438530
Description	:	This is a memorial monument (within "Battlefield Park") dedicated to the memory of the men who died in the 1812 "Skirmish on the Peninsula". -- [The scattered bones of the dead, were later gathered together and interred near this site, by Horace Ramsdell, whose young brother had died in this "skirmish".] This monument is near the location of the pioneer cabin of a Canadian trader named "Mr. Patterson", where some of the survivors of the 'skirmish' had found safety. [Later historians erroneously attributed this to be the cabin of Benajah Wolcott, but which instead was considerably east of this location (... Read More	This is a memorial monument (within "Battlefield Park") dedicated to the memory of the men who died in the 1812 "Skirmish on the Peninsula". -- [The scattered bones of the dead, were later gathered together and interred near this site, by Horace Ramsdell, whose young brother had died in this "skirmish".] This monument is near the location of the pioneer cabin of a Canadian trader named "Mr. Patterson", where some of the survivors of the 'skirmish' had found safety. [Later historians erroneously attributed this to be the cabin of Benajah Wolcott, but which instead was considerably east of this location ( according to an original map annotated about the year 1812). -- However, members of the Wolcott family much later, beginning about 1831, purchased additional land, from a man named Seth Steel ( and which also included the property of the present so-called "Wolcott" stone house, but which, prior to 1831, the Seth Steel family owned, and presumably resided within -- not the Benajah Wolcott family.) ---------------- ADDITIONAL NOTE: The man who originally sponsored this monument site, Joshua R. Giddings, was never involved in the actual fighting, but merely was in-charge of the rescue-boats ( but he never set-foot upon the actual battlegound sites until several decades afterward). In Giddings' own words (from his own correspondence written in 1812, to his parents): "Capt. Cotton ordered eight men of us to stay with the boats, as guard."... "We [who were] with the boats moved off about fifty rods from shore"......"In the meantime, we -- the guard in the boats which had come off-shore -- [we continued to] lay off-shore near the West Point, waiting for them."...{ "them", meaning some of the militiamen directly involved onshore in the skirmish, who returned to the shore to be picked up by the boats}..."We immediately went ashore and brought them off"( and etc.). [Therefore, when Giddings later detailed the specifics about the land-accounts of that "skirmish", obviously his land-accounts were merely based upon hearsay from the men who had participated in the actual fighting. (Later, some of the men who actually were indeed directly involved in the fighting, disputed some of Giddings' "hearsay" details).] ============= This location is # 72001038 (War of 1812 Battle Site / Giddings Plot / Giddings Monument / Battlefield Monument) on the National Register of Historic Places. The burial site is located in Danbury Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, and is # 9180 (War of 1812 Battle Site) in “Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003”, compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

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War of 1812 Battle Site is located at E Bay Shore Road (Danbury Twp.) Mineyahta-on-the Bay, Ottawa County ,Ohio , 43440USA.
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Latitude: 41.5140350
Longitude: -82.7438530

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Hartshorn Cemetery
Danbury, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5144440, -82.7499530

2. Wolcott Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5177994, -82.7403030

3. Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5003014, -82.7300034

4. Russian Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5335999, -82.7371979

5. Saint Joseph's Catholic Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5344009, -82.7382965

6. Holy Assumption Orthodox Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5361530, -82.7389380

7. Kelly Cemetery
Danbury, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5245720, -82.7705950

8. Chautauqua Park Memorial Garden
Lakeside, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5412410, -82.7418240

9. Saint Mary's Byzantine Catholic Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5409012, -82.7223969

10. Clemons Cemetery
Marblehead, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5409012, -82.7213974

11. Sackett Cemetery
Danbury, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5303001, -82.7872009

12. Saint Pauls Lutheran Church Cemetery
Lakeside, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5242200, -82.8049100

13. Jamison Cemetery
Danbury, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5050060, -82.8180740

14. Lockwood Cemetery
Lakeside, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5435140, -82.8161560

15. First Cemetery (Defunct)
Sandusky, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4543770, -82.7216040

16. Grace Episcopal Church Columbarium
Sandusky, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4547630, -82.7093940

17. Cholera Cemetery
Sandusky, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4496660, -82.7252970

18. Saint Marys Cemetery
Sandusky, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4425011, -82.7285995

19. Saint Joseph's Cemetery
Sandusky, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4420800, -82.7259500

20. Calvary Cemetery
Sandusky, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4383011, -82.7339020

21. Venice Cemetery
Margaretta Township, Erie County, USA
Coordinate: 41.4413690, -82.7829920

22. Catawba Island Cemetery
Catawba Island, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5569000, -82.8403015

23. Dwelle Cemetery
Port Clinton, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5069008, -82.8563995

24. K'Burg Family Cemetery
Catawba Island Township, Ottawa County, USA
Coordinate: 41.5589400, -82.8463000

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