Tags: Military Structure.
Farmer’s Castle was a defensive fortification built by a group of pioneers from the Ohio Company of Associates who moved about 15 miles down the Ohio River from the first settlement of Marietta Ohio to a location opposite the mouth of the Little Kanawha River. They had surveyed the land during the winter of 1788-89 and moved from Marietta to their new farms in April 1789 establishing the city of Belle-prairie or modern day Belpre Ohio.
