• The marker on this 1861 map shows the approximate location of Fort Fizzle on the Laurent Blanchard farm.

  • This historical marker on Holmes County Road 6 tells the story of Fort Fizzle, a short-lived draft riot involving participants from Knox, Coshocton, and Holmes Counties during the Civil War.

  • The old Blanchard farmstead can be seen in the background behind the historical marker for Fort Fizzle. Laurent Blanchard was a French settler who wasn’t interested in being conscripted into the Union army.

  • The historical marker is located on French Ridge, south of Glenmont, an area where many French and Swiss settlers gathered in the 1830s and 40s.

  • Over 400 Union soldiers camped in a grove of trees at the Workman Farm. Today, a few of the original trees remain on what is now known as the Wilson Farm, home of Wilson’s Country Creations.

  • Bigfoot is one of the concrete statues today standing guard at Wilson’s Country Creations, at the crossroads where Union forces turned to commence their attack on nearby Fort Fizzle.

  • Lyman Critchfield Sr., attorney general of the state of Ohio in 1863, worked to release Ulysses Mitchart after he was arrested in the aftermath of Fort Fizzle.

  • The Cleveland physician Dr. Alfred P. Scully was murdered in his office/apartment on March 2, 1930.

  • Eunice Rockwell suddenly turned up informing everyone that she was Dr. Scully’s wife and demanding part of his estate. Rockwell was originally Eunice Mitchart from Mount Vernon.

  • Paul Rockwell was Dr. Scully’s secret son with Eunice. He was aged 13 at the time of Scully’s death, but whether he knew it or not, his mother’s days were numbered, too.

  • The son of Lyman Critchfield, L.R. Critchfield Jr., jumped in to help a Mitchart in need, just as his father had done years before. Unfortunately, Critchfield was not able to get the courts to acknowledge Rockwell’s claim.

  • Just three years after Dr. Scully’s murder, Eunice Rockwell, though much younger, was herself dead from tuberculosis.