Plaque marking site of Fort Lernoult

View of bronze tablet marking the site of Fort Lernoult, installed at the Fort Street entrance to the Federal Building. Inscription reads: "1796-1896, this tablet designates the site of an English fort erected in 1778 by Major R.B. Lernoult as a defense agasint the Americans. It was subsquently called Fort Shelby, in honor of Gov. Isaac Shelby, of Kentucky, and was demolished in 1826. The evacuation of this fort by the British at 12 o'clock noon, July 11th, 1796, was the closing act of the War of Independence. On that day, the American flag was for the first time raised over this soil, all of what was then known as the Western Territory becoming at that time part of the Federal Union."