Show FORT MASSAC ASSAC TO BE MADE A PARK The Daughters rs of the American Revolution Revolution Rev Rev- have started a movement to acquire possession of ot Fort Massac assac ly lyIng lying ly- ly ing lag at the tho cast end of ot the city of oC Metropolis Metropolis Me Me- Ie- Ie the location of the oldest settlement settlement set set- In the State Stale of or Illinois The property is II owned by Judge Greene of ot Cairo It Is proposed to lay lilY out a park and otherwise mark It as a 0 gre great t strategic point In the history of or the country countr History shows that Fort Massac has been successively I el In the thc hands of the Spanish the French the English the theIn In Indians lans and the Americans Il It is said to have been built by a no straggling band of Dc De Sotos Soto's men It II has figured in great historic events e of oC the Southwest and is richer In historic interest than any point on the Ohio river It Ita was a commanded at one time by hy Mad Ind ony Va Wayne ne and at another another another an an- other by George Georce Ro Rogers JI Clark Here Aaron Burr Durr came to perfect his plot to tomake tomake tomake make an empire of oC the Southwest Chicago o Tribune |