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river hill[1] north of Fort Washington passed Mcmillins[2] Spring as it was afterwards Called Encamped at reading until Harmar came up with the regular Troops."
At the beginning of the last century Harmar's route was easily traced through Warren County, running north of Mason and west of Lebanon.[3] On September 30 the regulars under General Harmar left Fort Washington, by way of the same route, it would seem, as the militia. Captain Armstrong's record for the day reads: "The army moved from Fort Washington, at halfpast ten o'clock, A. M.,—marched about seven miles N. E. course—hilly, rich
- ↑ Mt. Auburn. Dr. Daniel Drake, writing in 1801, says: "Main street, beyond Seventh, was a mere road nearly impassable in muddy weather which, at the foot of the hills, divided into two, called the Hamilton and the Mad-river road. The former took the course of the Brighton House; the latter made a steep ascent over Mount Auburn."
Of a later road on Harmar's Trace we have this record: "1795 Road laid out from Main Street, Cincinnati, northeast nearly on Harmar's trace (six miles) to the road connecting Columbia and White's Station [Upper Carthage]" (History of Hamilton County, p. 223). - ↑ Lick Schoolhouse, Deerfield Township, Warren County?
- ↑ History of Warren County (Chicago, 1882), p. 410.
