New Flagpole Marks Historic Fort Milestone

For the first time in nearly two and a half centuries, a flag once again flies over Fort Laurens in the same place it did in 1779. On Aug. 1, a new wooden flagpole crafted from a single tree trunk was raised on the spot where the original was  installed just one day before the fort was abandoned. The moment marked a pivotal step in a long-anticipated reconstruction of Ohio’s only Revolutionary War-era fort.