Lord Dunmore, General Clark, Simon Kenton, and Daniel Boone had sat beside that fire.

There Cornplanter, the Seneca chief, had made his famous deal with Colonel Zane, trading the island in the river opposite the settlement for a barrel of whiskey.

Logan, the Mingo chief and friend of the whites, had smoked many pipes of peace there with Colonel Zane.

At a later period, when King Louis Phillippe, who had been exiled from France by Napoleon, had come to America, during the course of his melancholy wanderings he had stopped at Fort Henry a few days.

His stay there was marked by a fierce blizzard and the royal guest passed most of his time at Colonel Zane's fireside.