Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-05-28
History of Ashtabula Township.
Written in 1s5G-from tile Times.
By tho Late Rev. JOHN HALL.


Thus, in passing, | have given an i'm
perfect description of the delightful spot
whereon we stand, and of the sublime
and beautiful scenery discernable from it
i'll looking to the north, northwest, the
east and the northeast. The northeast
ern view will be much improved when
more timber is removed. These, howev-
er, although worthy of a better notice
than they have received, are not the
writer's present inducement for conduct
ing his reader to the top of this elevated
observatory. lie led him up hither to
show him the relics of antiquity and the
wild, rugged and romantic scenery IN the
back ground south aud east of this point.
If you pass on few rods to the east of
the glaves in the cemetery, you come to
the high, perpendicular bankr OF the Ash
tabula, formed by its dividing of this
south ridge, TO make its passage through
1t to the lake. Then, passing down to
the south base Of the ridge, You enter a
lcld, cleared many years ago, and still
improved by Mr.. VIM. Jones' Crossing
this field from north to south, you find in
It's northeast quarter the remains of a
small ancient fort. The south side is
bounded and walled by the high, perpen-
dicular bank of Hubbard Run. which
falls into the Ashtabula at the southoas,
corner of this field. Its east side is
bounded and walled by the lofty, per-
pendicular west bank of the Ashtabula.
These two boundaries form two sides of
an imperfectly triangular part of the
field. The west side has the bitches and
embankments of the tort, which must
have been deep and high, for its bcunda-
ry.
This must have been the work of an
unknown, and at least partially civilized
race of men, ages long ago. So we Judge
from the old timber found growing upon
the spot by Mr.. Jones, in 1907, and from
other marks OF antiquity.
The scenery around this fortified
ground-fortitied by both nature and
art-thanks to the proprietors who have
permitted it to remain in its wild state,
is inexpressibly majestic and awful In
comparison with the grandeur of these
works OF nature, the most magnificent
works OF art are mere shadows Of sub
Unity. The deep channel of the Ashta-
bula, with its lofty, perpendicular west
bank, and its equally high, but more slo-
ping, eastern bank, covered with tall
pines and fir trees, with thick boughs
and evergreen foliage, casting their dark
shade upon the waters of the river rolling
below them, from the eastern boundary
of your vision from the fort in the field.
On the south side, Hubbard Run, in its
passage to the Ashtabula, rolls down its
limpid stream along its deep channel,
overhung with fir trees and evergreen
shrubs Of various descriptions. The ra-
vine through which this run passes, di-
vides this fort from the little Isolated
mount called the "Sugar Loaf" it seems
but an ell distant from the fort.
= This little conical mount, with the sur
rounding deep ravines, running streams
and dark evergreen trees, and shrubs en-
circling and covering its sides, is wild
curiosity among the many with which
this place abounds. 1t stands as high as
the main lands all round, from which it
is isolated. 1t is separated from the main
land on the north and west by Hubbard
! Run; on the south by dry rayine,