Ill-Fated Frontier

Peril and Possibilities in the Early American West

Settlements at Wheeling, Fort Harmar, Limestone, and Maysville 

Fort Harmar circa 1790
Fort Harmar on the Upper Ohio River.

In 1788 The Ohio Land Company established Marietta in the immediate vicinity. See end note for the book’s Introduction, page xxi, par. 5, line 4.