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Secret orders given by Virginia Governor Patrick Henry authorizing George Rogers Clark to attack British posts in the area called the Illinois County. The goal was to protect American settlements in the frontier from further British-sponsored Indian…

Historic artifacts recovered from one of the excavated trenches

Artifacts such as a brass tinkler, brass crucifix, pipe fragment, and ceramic fragments

Archaeological excavation unit showing the jog in Wall A which was uncovered

Portrait of George Rogers Clark

In 1869, Clark family members had the remains of the General exhumed and reinterred in the Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, where he still rests today.

Gravestone for Gen. George Rogers Clark.
Born Q. S. NOV. 9, 1752
DIED FEB. 13, 1818

A Model of how Fort Sackville might have looked from 1778-1779.

No. 111 Application to Confirm and Indian Grant. Communicated to the House of Representatives December 23, 1805

The Virginia (State) Council outlines why Henry Hamilton is being held as a Prisoner of War in Williamsburg.

Painting depicts the surrender of British-held Fort Sackville by Henry Hamilton, lieutenant governor of Detroit, to George Rogers Clark on February 25, 1779. This victory helped the Americans gain control of the region north of the Ohio River and…