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Fort Steuben was a fortification erected in Feb. 1787 on the Ohio River in eastern Ohio Country at the northern end of the Seven Ranges land tract to be surveyed. It was at the location of the modern city of Steubenville, Ohio. The fort was built by Major John Hamtramck and named for Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a Prussian army officer who ...
An 1846 engraving of downtown Steubenville, with the Jefferson County Courthouse visible on the right. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River, [10] and named the fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
The Steuben Memorial State Historic Site is a historic location in the eastern part of Steuben, Oneida County, New York, that honors Baron von Steuben, the "Drillmaster of the American Revolution". The land in this part of Oneida County was part of a 16,000-acre (6,500 ha) land grant made to von Steuben for his services to the United States .
Fort Finney (Indiana) renamed Fort Steuben; Fort Finney (Ohio) This page was last edited on 4 February 2021, at 15:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Fort Steuben Bridge, originally the Weirton-Steubenville Bridge, was a suspension bridge which spanned the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio to Weirton, West Virginia and carried U.S. Route 22 and then Ohio State Route 822 during its existence. Completed in 1928 and opened as a toll bridge, the Fort Steuben Bridge was a more direct route ...
Veterans Memorial Bridge, also known as the New Steubenville Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge which carries U.S. Route 22 across the Ohio River between Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, West Virginia.
It is now on the property of a museum beside reconstructed Fort Steuben. [2] In 1973, while on another site about a mile away, 40°22′31″N 80°36′47″W / 40.37528°N 80.61306°W / 40.37528; -80.61306 ( old ) , it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical significance
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