"If you visit the blockhouse in Mansfield today you'll be in a quiet park where you can feel safe. But if you had been there when it was originally built: the feeling would be danger, and panic; because Mansfield was just a clearing in the wilderness then.

Photo: The Blockhouse in 2016 "Ohio's only authentic wooden relic from 1812"

And although the map showed lines of civilization coming in 1812 the whole state was a vast forest and of all the settlements Mansfield stood alone on the edge to face the war of 1812.

They had all heard stories of massacres and bloodshed and they knew the British were supplying weapons of mass destruction."

Okay so maybe the video did not say that - but you won't know if you don't watch!  Check out this high quality video and enjoy the story: Mansfield's American History. 

  

Video produced by Timothy McKee

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Blockhouse Photo by: James Pennington