FORT AMANDA MEMORIAL PARK
Fort — State Route 198, Wapakoneta, Auglaize County, Ohio
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public · est. 1812
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fort-amanda-memorial-park-wapakoneta-ohio/

Fort associated with documented cultural history.

Fort Amanda Memorial Park is a fort in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Fort associated with documented cultural history. Built in 1812 as a War of 1812 supply depot, the fort no longer stands; a 1915 monument and cemetery mark the site. Local lore holds that Visitors reportedly see a log cabin that vanishes when approached.

Fort Amanda was the supply line that kept the army alive — the depot Lt. Col. Robert Pogue built on the Auglaize River in the fall of 1812, on the site of an abandoned Ottawa village, named for his twelve-year-old daughter Hannah Amanda. Harrison's Northwest Army needed the river route because the Black Swamp was impassable for wagons; the fort was the warehouse where the supplies for the Detroit campaign came through, the rafts built on the bank to carry the men and materiel north.
The fort was a working depot — four blockhouses and eleven-foot palisades, enlarged in 1813, garrisoned by Kentucky and Ohio militia, stocked with livestock and grain and the whiskey that was part of the ration. Ensign Schillinger's diary is the daily record — the weather and the work and the routine of a frontier supply post that was the army's lifeline to the northwest. The fort was abandoned in 1815 when the war ended; the settlers took the land, and the site went back to farm.
The memorial is on the ground — the 1915 granite marker at the fort site, the cemetery that holds the soldiers who died at the post, the river the rafts were built on still running past. The park is the Ohio History Connection's site; the fort itself is archaeology — the palisade lines and the blockhouse foundations in the field where the depot was.
Fort Amanda is the archive's depot file — the supply post named for a colonel's daughter, the river link that fed the Detroit campaign, the fort that was abandoned when the war moved on and remembered by the monument and the cemetery on the bank.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Fort Amanda is the archive's logistics file — the War of 1812 supply depot on the Auglaize, the fort named for a twelve-year-old that fed the campaign to retake Detroit, abandoned when the war ended and marked by the monument and the graves.
A depot that fed an army keeps its riverbank — the file's suggestion being that Fort Amanda's hold is the supply line: the place where the rafts were built and the provisions stored, on the river that was the road the army needed when the swamp was impassable.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] phantom structure: Visitors reportedly see a log cabin that vanishes when approached. A fortification's lore is written in its casualty ledger; Fort Amanda Memorial Park's ledger gave the reports plenty to work with. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Auglaize County Hauntings and Legends (https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/auglaizecounty/)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Built in 1812 as a War of 1812 supply depot, the fort no longer stands; a 1915 monument and cemetery mark the site. Fort Amanda Memorial Park's service record is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the garrison lore. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Fort Amanda Memorial Park'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Auglaize County Hauntings and Legends — Ohio Exploration Society
  https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/auglaizecounty/
· Fort Amanda Memorial Park — Ohio History Connection
  https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/fort-amanda-memorial-park/

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