Built between April and August of 1794 by British troops, Fort Miamis featured four bastions, a river battery, barracks, officers' quarters, supply buildings, and repair shops. The outpost housed over 130 British troops, and fourteen cannons protected the fort in all directions. Approaching by land, opposition faced a 25-foot-deep trench with an abatis. Archaeological excavations in 1982 unearthed nails, wall timbers, bottle fragments, regimental buttons, and other artifacts. All that remains today are the earthworks.
