Fort Warren aka Fort Burnt Corn
Fort Burnt Corn. A settlers’ stockaded fort built by Richard Warren. Also known as Fort Warren.
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The Creek War of 1813-14 began as a civil war, largely centered among the Upper Creeks, whose towns were located on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, and upper reaches of the Alabama rivers. The struggle pitted a faction of the Creeks who became known as Red Sticks against those Creeks who supported the National Council, a relatively new body that had developed from the traditional regional meetings of headmen from the Creek towns.
On July 27, 1813, the Mississippi Territorial Militia intervened in a civil war that had been raging within the Creek Nation in Alabama and Georgia. The militia’s attack on a Creek supply train at Burnt Corn Creek in Alabama brought the United States into a bloody conflict that is remembered today as the Creek War of 1813-1814.
Landrums Fort / Mott’s Fort
Landrums Fort / Mott’s Fort In Clarke County on Co. Rd. 3 next to Berry’s Chapel. A Creek War fort
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Built by General Andrew Jackson in September 1813 as a main base for his army.
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A War of 1812 militia fort established in 1814 near Milstead, Macon County, Alabama.
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Fort Jackson
Fort Jackson Fort Jackson and Fort Toulouse are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the
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Turner’s Fort Located eight miles south and five miles west of Fort Easley, in the West Bend Community two miles
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Fort Madison Fort Madison was in the north-east corner of section one, township six, range three east of the St.
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Creek War Battle Sites in Alabama
Creek War Battle Sites in Alabama The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek
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Fort Crawford once provided defense for Alabama settlers in what is today East Brewton, Alabama.
Continue readingMcGrews Fort
This wooden stockade of McGrews Fort enclosed nearly two acres. Some of the palisades post were still in place as late as 1879, and around the fort locality was an old field.
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Fort Claiborne
Located on the east side of the Alabama River at Weatherford’s Bluff, Claiborne, Monroe County, thirty-five miles north of Fort Mims.
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Powell’s Fort
Powell’s Fort, aka James Powell’s Fort, was a settlers’ fort located about three miles south of Fort Carney near Oven Bluff
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Easley’s Fort
EASLEy’s Fort was on the Tombigbee river, in section eleven, township eleven, range one west, at what is now called Wood’s Bluff.
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Fort Stoddard
A Federal post that was erected at Mount Vernon Landing soon after the Spanish vacated the northern portion of West Florida. Aaron Burr was held here in 1807 after his arrest for treason. At one time (pre Civil War) the site was reserved as a subpost of Mount Vernon Arsenal. Also spelled Stodderd in some sources. The name of the town was later altered from the original spelling.
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Gardener and Shaw were shot dead; Butler and Hinson wounded. Saffold and Hinson escaped on horseback to Fort Bibb, but Capt. Butler, thrown from his horse and left on foot, was killed by the Indians.
Continue readingChinnaby’s Fort
Chinnaby’s Fort In 1813 a Creek chief named Chinnaby, friendly to the Americans, had a kind of fort at Ten Islands, on the Coosa River, known as Chinnaby’s fort.
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During the Civil War, a Confederate fort named Fort Gullett was built on the site of Fort Carney. Fort Gullett was built in 1862 to protect the nearby salt wells. Fort Gullett also served to prevent Federal gunboats from traveling up the Tombigbee River.[9]
Continue readingAbner Turner’s Fort
Abner Turner’s Fort was a settlers’ stockaded fort with two or three blockhouses, later abandoned for Fort Republic at St. Stephens.
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Built in 1813 as defense against the Indians, Fort Gullet was four miles south of present day Jackson Alabama.
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Fort Armstrong was a stockade fort built in present-day Cherokee County, Alabama during the Creek War.
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Tallassee Alabama
Tallassee (also “Talassee,” “Talisi,” “Tellassee,” and various similar spellings) is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Tallassee was the southernmost of a string of Overhill Cherokee villages that spanned the lower Little Tennessee River in the 18th century. Although it receives scant attention in primary historical accounts, Tallassee is one of the few Overhill towns to appear on every major 18th-century map of the Little Tennessee Valley.
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