250th Anniversary of Lord Dunmore's War

Join speaker Tom O'Grady to hear about the autumn of 1774, when British Royal Governor of Virginia Lord Dunmore marched an army of approximately 1,500 soldiers up the Hocking Valley, camping near the future site of Nelsonville on his way to the Pickaway Plains to negotiate a Treaty with Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and Chief Logan after the Battle of Point Pleasant.

After concluding the Treaty of Camp Charlotte, the officers of Dunmore’s army voted for the passage of the Fort Gower Resolves at the small fortification they had established on the banks of the Hockhocking at the Ohio River. Some academics count the Fort Gower Resolves as the first American Declaration of Independence, making these events noteworthy in American and world history.