Fort Deposit / Roche de Bout

Near here on Aug. 19, 1794, Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne built Fort Deposit while advancing against the forces of the hostile Indian Confederacy gathered at the foot of the Rapida. The following day, leaving Capt. Zebulon Pike with 200 soldiers to guard his equipment and stores, he routed the Indians in the decisive victory of Fallen Timbers. After treating his wounded, Wayne abandoned the fort and returned up the valley to Fort Defiance. Just downstream, Roche de Bout, a large limestone outcrop detached from the bank, was a traditional meeting place of the Indians in the Maumee Valley and the Great Lakes region, where Little Turtle, Blue Jacket, Tarhe the Crane, and other war chiefs met to plan their strategy against Wayne's Legion and the earlier armies of Generals Harmar and St. Clair.

Waterville, Ohio · United States