From Wikipedia.
Yesterday, I wrote about Fort Meigs and was wondering if the former Meigs Field in Chicago and Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio, might be named for the same person.
They weren't.
Meigs Field in Chicago, a small civilian plane airport on Northerly Island off the shoreline, was named for Merrill C. Meigs (1883-1968), publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner and early aviation proponent who reportedly taught Harry Truman how to fly.
Meigs Field existed from 1948 to 2003, when then-Mayor Richard M. Daley had it razed under cover of the night.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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