1-88 Colonel William Crawford

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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 Street
Seville, 44273
Location: Eastern end of Maria StanHope Park
Latitude: 41.0100090
Longitude: -81.8664020
Subjects: American Revolution, Crawford vicinity

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).

Remarkable Ohio