ANCIENT FORTS IN OGEMAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 



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ANCIENT FORTS IN OGEMAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 



By M. L. Leach, of Traverse City, Mich. 



June 18 and 19, 1878, I examined two old forts on Rifle River, in the 

 township of Churchill, Ogemaw County, supposed to be the work of the 

 Mound Builders. The following is a transcript of my notes made at the 

 time: 



No. 1, the smaller of the two, is situated on the northeast quarter 















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Fort No. 1, Ogemaw Connty, Michigan. 



of section 4, township 22 north, of range 3 east, on the east bank of the 

 river, on a bluff elevated 25 feet above the water. Its form is irregu- 

 larly oval, the long diameter, from north to south, measured from center 

 to center of the parapet, being Ivl feet, and the short, from east to 

 west, 141. The southern portion is a trifle wider than the northern. 

 The work consists simi)ly of a wall of earth, with a ditch on the outside. 

 The ditch at the present time is from 2 to 3 feet deep and from G to 

 10 wide ; the wall from 2 to 3 feet high and from 6 to 10 wide at 

 the base. There are eight openings in the wall, distributed at irregu- 

 S. Mis. 33 54 



