Another Myth Is Busted

PhysOrg reports that sites that were originally referred to as "Forts" by William Henry Harrison were actually water works designed to cope with post-glacial climate change.

See: Revising and re-sizing history: New work shows Ohio site to be an ancient water works, not a fort

The site known as Miami Fort is no fort at all, and it is also much larger than previously believed – so large, in fact, that its berms stretch to almost six kilometers in length, making it twice as large as any other Native American earthworks in Ohio, and one of the largest in the nation.