WAPAKONETA, OH (WLIO) - The Wapakoneta Chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America are making sure that this area's history is not forgotten. On Sunday, they unveiled a historical marker for Fort Au-Glaize and the first Shawnee Council House. The marker will sit along Dixie Highway, a couple of hundred yards south of where they both stood. The V.V.A. Chapter 1126 took up the project that started 3 ½ years ago with author, historian, and former Wapakoneta resident Ken Elchert, whose research into the early history of the area made the marker possible.
“Because of the historical marker completed by the V.V.A Chapter 1126, starting today, the neighbors here in Wapakoneta will no longer be as ignorant as the dreariest stranger of the significance of the sites of Fort Au-Glaize and the first Wapak Shawnee Council House. They have put into action their conviction that a nation that does not remember and preserve its history is a nation lost,” says Elchert.
Elchert also signed copies of his book “Wapakoneta in the Beginning” as part of the dedication.
