558 Our Engraving — Fort Washington. [December, 



OUR ENGRAVING— FORT WASHINGTON. 



The memory of otter days and past scenes, are often rendered 

 more vivid by presenting to the eye some prominent object of the 

 panorama, landscape or scene represented, thus starting into new 

 life, thoughts and associations supposed to be forever buried in ob- 

 livion. Such will be the case in viewing, after long absence, the 

 village church, the old school-house, the favorite walnut or apple tree 

 of childhood years. 



To the pioneer of Cincinnati, the Frontispiece of our present 

 number will strike the eye with no common interest, and to him this 

 rude block-house will be peopled with forms and images, widely dif- 

 ferent from those who look upon it for the first time, but even to 

 such it is not without interest in the fact that all love to dwell upon 

 pleasant and striking contrasts. 



All who read and reflect, will be astonished to know that this rude 

 work erected for defense was one of the most prominent objects on 

 the site which Cincinnati occupies but a little more than fifty years 

 ago. Such astonishing progress — such wonderful results — but few 

 can realize, yet there are many still living who have witnessed the 

 whole. 



Fort Washington was constructed by Major Doughty who arrived 

 with his troops from Fort Harmar in the year 1790, and was the most 

 extensive and important military work in the territory, belonging to 

 the United States at that time. 



Prior to the treaty of Greenville, which established a permanent 

 peace between the United States and the Indians, but few improve- 

 ments had been made, of any description ; and scarcely one of a 

 permanent character. 



In Cincinnati, Fort Washington was the most remarkable object. 

 This structure stood between Third and Fourth streets, east of what is 

 now Broadway, which was then an alley of two rods wide. This was 

 the eastern boundary of the town, as originally laid out. It was 

 composed of a number of strongly built, hewed-log cabins, a story 

 and a half high, calculated for soldier's barracks ; some of them, 

 more conveniently arranged, and better finished, were intended for 

 officers' quarters. They were so placed as to form a hollow square of 



