40 Bishop H. J. Van Vleck delivered an address of welcome. Hon. D. A. Hollingsworth of Cadiz, was orator of the day. In the afternoon the assembled people were addressed by Gov. Charles Foster and other distinguished guests. Should any reader visit the cemetery at Gnadenhutten, the following directions will serve as a guide to points of interest on the grounds: Thirty feet west of the monument is a small mound which indicates the “Site . of the Mission House.” Fifteen feet to the east of the monument is the “Site of the Church.” Seventy feet farther east, the ‘ 'Site of the Cooper Shop, one of the Slaughter • h Houses.” Two hundred feet south of the monument is a mound eighteen feet in width and five feet high. “In a cellar under this mound. Rev. J. Heckewelder and D. Peter in 1789, deposited the bones.” Crawford’s Expedition.—Following the massacre at Gnadenhutten. the warfare raged with redoubled violence all along the border. Though the Christian Indians had had little in common with their savage brethren, yet their slaughter appealed to the race feeling
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