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  SHYAMSAR TALAB - Shyamsar Talab is situated at near Hira chowk in Charkhi Dadri District. Shyamsar Talab was built by Sitaram Seth during the 17th century Mughal period. Sitaram Seth was originally from Dadri and is said to have moved to Delhi at the time of construction of the Red Fort and started working there. While working in the Red Fort, there came a time when the Mughal emperor made Sitaram his treasurer's assistant. Architecture - Blue and brown stones have been used from the hill of Kaliyana to make this pond about 40 feet deep. Four ghats, waterfall ghat, Gau ghat, Khatu Shyam ghat and Sitaram ghat were built on the Shyamsar pond, which are almost destroyed now. In each ghat, 101 steps have been made to get down into the pond and a separate place has been made for cows in Gau Ghat from where they can drink the water of the pond. Chatri has been built using Mughal architecture on the way of every ghat. 8 wells and temples were built all around this pond, out of

ROHTAK ANCIENT FORT - A centuries old fort was situated at Rohtak, in present Quilla Mohlla. That fort was built by Shekhs of Yaman under Kazi Sultan Muhammad Surkh during Ghori Dynasty kings. The then emperor Delhi, Mahmud Tughlaq posted two brothers named Malik Idrees and Mubariz Khan at that fort in 1400 AD. The fort of Rohtak was besieged by Sayad Khizr Khan in 1410, which could only succeed after a long seize of six months. Another mention of Rohtak Fort is found in Gazetteer of East India Company, where it is described as "On the east of Rohtak is a large brick fort, but the walls now so feeble to sustain the fire of a six pounder". But now no traces of that historical fort are surviving and a very congested habitation of immigrants has occupied every inch of land of that Fort of Rohtak. Photographs of Fort Rohtak, taken by Joseph David Beglar in 1870 AD, is preserved in British Library Records, in which a portion of southern wall of that crumbling Fort is only visible.