It was arranged with the city that the house be moved, intact, to the Zoological gardens, there repaired but not changed, to be used as a museum of historic relics. Many of these were contributed by members of the Cincinnati D.A.R. The Kemper Log Cabin was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on Flag Day, June 14, 1912.
The ceremonies and all connected with them were of special interest, you may be sure, to Mrs. Alice Kemper Boring (Mrs. Daniel Z. Boring), direct descendant of the Rev. James Kemper and an active member of Cincinnati Chapter, D.A.R . Her Revolutionary War ancestors were' Charles Kemper of Virginia, Rev. James Kemper, Captain Moses Curtis of Massachusetts and Captain John Hathaway, of Virginia.
An outstanding project of even greater historic importance was carried out by the Cincinnati D.A.R. in 1901, only eight years after the chapter was organized. It was started in 1899, when the Daughters, as well as members of other patriotic and historic organizations, decided that there should be a suitable marker of the site of Ft. Washington. The fort, built in 1789 on the government reservation bounded by Broadway, Fourth St. and Ludlow St. and the Ohio River, was torn down in 1808, when the reservation was sold in lots and became the site of many handsome homes. In the course of time the old frontier fort, upon which the safety of the entire community had many times depended, was almost forgotten.
Many of the younger generation did not know it had ever existed, comparatively few knew where it once had stood.
Credit for launching the project of marking the site of Ft. Washington is given to MRS. FRANK W. WILSON, who urged that other patriotic societies of the city and state be asked to participate in the enterprise.
The plan was carried out and in course of time a handsome and appropriate monument, of stone surmounted by an ancient cannon, was placed on East Third St. at what would have been the central spot of the old fort. This too was unveiled, with patriotic exercises, on a Flag Day—June 14, 1901. To MRS. PIERCE J. CADWALLADER, later a regent of Cincinnati Chapter, was assigned the honor of unveiling the mounment.
The most famous pioneer woman of Muskingum County was SARAH ZANE McINTIRE. She was the daughter of Col. Ebenezer Zane, who in 1796 addressed a memorial to Congress setting forth plans he had made to connect the Ohio River at Wheeling with a road to Limestone, Ky. to join the river again there. He asked for the right to build and operate ferries and for grants of land for such purpose.
He was granted, by act of Congress, three tracts of land, each a mile square at the Muskingum, Hockhocking and Scioto Rivers. The road he laid out with the help of expert woodsmen was known as Zane’s Trace. It is almost to a hair’s line the Old National Road from Wheeling to Zanesville, and thence to Kentucky.
