Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. Ohio became a state in 1803, two decades after the Revolutionary War ended. But in 1778, the Continental Army built Fort Laurens, a small outpost along the Tuscarawas River, as part of a plan to attack the British in Detroit and defeat their Native American allies. Built by hundreds of soldiers from Pennsylvania and Virginia over 10 days in November 1778, the fort remains Ohio’s only Revolutionary War-era fort. It lasted only 10 months before it was disbanded. The state is now rebuilding...