{"nrhp_refnum":"82003667","name":"Crawford, Col., Burn Site Monument","other_names":[],"category":"object","location":{"address":"NE of Crawford","address_restricted":false,"city":"Crawford","county":"Wyandot County","state":"OH","lat":40.92304196300006,"lon":-83.33434538099993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A cannon-shaped Berea sandstone commemorative monument about 8.5 feet tall, about half a mile east of Crawford, Wyandot County, Ohio, on a bluff above Tymochtee Creek. It was erected in 1877 and made by B.L. Bauscher's marble works of Upper Sandusky.","why_significant":"The monument commemorates Colonel William Crawford's death by burning in 1782 during the campaign against Sandusky. The exact site of the burning is not documented, so the monument itself is nominated. From 1877 to 1935 it served as the focal point of the annual Wyandot Pioneer Association picnics, and it has become a pilgrimage site for county history.","narrative":"This sandstone monument, shaped like a cannon and standing about 8.5 feet tall on a round base, sits on a bluff above Tymochtee Creek east of Crawford, Ohio. Its inscription remembers Colonel Crawford, burned by Indians in the valley on June 11, 1782. John Gormley designed it, and B.L. Bauscher's marble works in Upper Sandusky made it in the summer of 1877 for the Pioneer Association of Wyandot County. The exact place of Crawford's death was never precisely documented, so the monument itself is the recognized resource. Its importance also comes from what happened around it. The dedication drew thousands of people to a picnic that formally organized the Wyandot Pioneer Association, and annual Pioneer Picnics with speakers, bands and choirs continued there until 1935. The monument has not been altered since it was erected and is seen as a link to the county's pioneer history. The form notes that the surrounding valley was threatened by a planned power line.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Designed by John Gormley of Wyandot County; made by the marble works of B.L. Bauscher of Upper Sandusky","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as unaltered and on its original site, in good condition; the form notes the setting is threatened by a planned high power line, and the picnic pavilion and grandstand are gone.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.179475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/82003667.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003667/aa135a6f94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003667/aa135a6f94-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mcclellan28","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crawford_Burn_Site_Monument_(230th_Anniversary_Commemoration_of_the_Battle_of_Sandusky).JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mcclellan28</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crawford_Burn_Site_Monument_(230th_Anniversary_Commemoration_of_the_Battle_of_Sandusky).JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992080","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col._Crawford_Burn_Site_Monument","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5141759"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/wyandot-county/crawford-col-burn-site-monument-82003667/"}