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Marker Details
- Title, side A
- The Giants of Seville
- Title, side B
- Same
- Sponsors
- Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Longaberger Company, The Seville Kiwanis and Lions Clubs, The Guilford Grange, The Seville Historical Society, and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- SW corner of Pleasant Street and W Main StreetSeville, 44273
- Location
- Eastern end of Maria StanHope Park
- Latitude
- 41.0100090
- Longitude
- -81.8664020
- Subjects
- American Revolution, Crawford vicinity
Picture Details
- Title
- Colonel William Crawford
- Caption
- Reproduction of a portrait of Colonel William Crawford at age forty. Crawford served in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolutionary War. In 1782 he lead an attack on the Mingo and Delaware tribes along the Sandusky River. Crawford's troops fought off the Native Americans and their British allies at the Battle of the Olentangy on June 6, but on June 7 Crawford was captured. The Native Americans burned Crawford at the stake in revenge for the Gnadenhutten massacre (AL02924).