{"nrhp_refnum":"69000151","name":"Fort Meigs","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"1.3 mi. SW of Perrysburg","address_restricted":false,"city":"Perrysburg","county":"Wood County","state":"OH","lat":41.552773986000034,"lon":-83.65146408699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1969-08-04","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1969-08-04","areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Meigs is a War of 1812 fort site on the south bank of the Maumee River in Wood County, Ohio, about 1.3 miles southwest of Perrysburg. Gen. William Henry Harrison built it in 1813, and the site is now a reconstructed fort run as a state memorial.","why_significant":"The fort was the scene of the five-day British and Indian siege of May 1-5, 1813, which failed to capture Harrison's Northern Army. The failure marked the beginning of the end of British control of the Old Northwest. The site also holds a prehistoric Upper Mississippian village midden that is the only known example of its assemblage in the Maumee Valley.","narrative":"Fort Meigs is a War of 1812 fort site on the Maumee River near Perrysburg, Ohio. Begun in early 1813 under General William Henry Harrison, it covered about eight acres, with earth and picket walls, seven blockhouses, five batteries and a long earthen embankment called the Grand Traverse. In May 1813 British and Indian forces besieged it for five days but failed to take it, an outcome that began the decline of British power in the Old Northwest. The fort was abandoned in 1815 and passed to the State of Ohio in 1907. Today the stockade, blockhouses and batteries are reconstructions on the original locations, and an 80-foot monument from 1908 stands at the center. Archaeological work also found a prehistoric village midden from roughly the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It shows a culture related to the Whittlesey phase and is the only such site known in the Maumee Valley.","period_of_significance":"May 1st - May 5th, 1813","architect_builder":"General William Henry Harrison (directed construction)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated by the Ohio Historical Society as a state memorial and park. The stockade, seven blockhouses and batteries have been reconstructed, and the condition is rated good to excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:08.919723-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/69000151_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000151/031a41c379-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/69000151/031a41c379-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Traveler100","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort-Meigs-01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Traveler100</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort-Meigs-01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986559","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Meigs","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5471670"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wood-county/fort-meigs-69000151/"}