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	History & Legends @ Tateshell.com
		The Negro Fort was taken after a bloody bombardment and was completely destroyed in the attack by United States military forces.
		After that, Fort Gadsden was virtually forgotten until 1862 when the Confederate Army took control of the Fort.
		The Fort is in the Northern part of Franklin County and rests beside the Apalachicola River.
	www.tateshell.com /History.asp (1088 words)

	Negro Fort - Ghost Town
		The ruined fort was built by the British during the War of 1812 and left to their fl allies (300 African Americans and 30 Seminole and Choctaw Indians) when they departed in 1815.
		The fort was under the command of a fl man named Garson and a Choctaw chief (whose name is not known).
		Negro Fort was perceived as a threat to white slaveholders in Georgia.
	www.ghosttowns.com /states/fl/negrofort.html (294 words)

	Aboard the Underground Railroad-- British Fort
		British Fort, a National Historic Landmark, like Fort Mose in St. John's County, Florida, is a precursor site to the Underground Railroad, demonstrating that resistance to slavery arose decades before abolitionism became organized and influential.
		In 1815 when the British withdrew from the area, the fort, including its artillery and military supplies, were given to the many fls and a few Indians that had moved into it, seeking the protection it offered and cultivating successful and profitable plantations around it.
		British Fort, or Fort Gadsden, is located in the Apalachicola National Forest and is a short distance from State Road 65, near Sumatra, Florida.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/underground/fl1.htm (548 words)

	Aboard the Underground Railroad-- British Fort
		British Fort, a National Historic Landmark, like Fort Mose in St. John's County, Florida, is a precursor site to the Underground Railroad, demonstrating that resistance to slavery arose decades before abolitionism became organized and influential.
		In 1815 when the British withdrew from the area, the fort, including its artillery and military supplies, were given to the many fls and a few Indians that had moved into it, seeking the protection it offered and cultivating successful and profitable plantations around it.
		British Fort, or Fort Gadsden, is located in the Apalachicola National Forest and is a short distance from State Road 65, near Sumatra, Florida.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/underground/fl1.htm (548 words)

	The News Herald: Gulf/Franklin Local News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1814, a fort called the British Post was built on the Apalachicola River, 24 miles north of present Apalachicola with the permission of the Spanish authorities.
		This fort served as a base for the British recruitment of Indians and fls during the War of 1812 against the U.S. After the war, the British Commander, Colonel Nicholls, left the fort to the assemblage of free fls, escaped slaves and Indians.
		In addition to the earthworks marking the fort location, an authentic miniature replica of Fort Gadsden and six exhibits are on display in a kiosk-styled interpretive center (an open-sided, walk around building).
	www.newsherald.com /archive/gulf/en062598.htm (527 words)

	Citytimes: Gadsden helped settle bay area
		Gadsden proposed the fort be named for Brooke, who reciprocated by naming the beach where he found the note Gadsden Point.
		Gadsden was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1788.
		Known as the Gadsden Purchase, it resolved border disputes lingering from the Mexican War and provided a rail route that linked the southern United States with the Pacific coast.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/08/15/Citytimes/Gadsden_helped_settle.shtml (469 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Conditions were getting worse at Fort Gadsden and Fort Scott, their bread ration being supplied with corn from the quarter master's store and Capt. Spencer had not returned from New Orleans or reported since he left the post on December 15th last.
		According to Nicks the Spanish force destined to garrison Fort Marks was to have sailed from Pensacola on February 27th and their object was to demolish the post and then proceed to Fort Gadsden.
		When the garrison was removed from Fort Smith to Fort Gibson Nicks and Rogers were put in charge of the buildings at the abandoned post and of the public flat boat and held responsible for their preservation and the operation of the ferry for the military.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v008/v008p389.html (5497 words)

	CHAPTER 7. SECOND SPANISH PERIOD, 1783-1821
		Soon after the reconstruction of the fort was begun, Indians threatened the plantations on the west side of the St. Johns River, as well as on Amelia Island.
		By 1763, the fort was less than half completed when it was delivered to the English as a result of the War with Spain.
		Fort San Nicolas was abandoned after the fall of Fernandina to General MacGregor.
	www.vernonjohns.org /nonracists/jxspfla2.html (2937 words)

	pg19
		About 30 miles upstream from the mouth of the Apalachicola River on the Gulf of Mexico sits Fort Gadsden, built over the ashes of Negro Fort, a British stronghold in 1814 and later a refuge for Seminoles, a group of Indians and Negroes, who had been living in the area for generations.
		Nichols of the British Army built Negro Fort, after he was dispatched to the Panhandle as part of a widespread British plan to recruit Indians and Negroes to serve in the military.
		Loomis reported that of the 334 in the fort, 270 died instantly from the assault; three of the remaining 60 escaped without injury.
	www.fsu.edu /~fstime/FS-Times/volume8/oct02web/19oct02.html (404 words)

	Apalachicola National Forest Campgrounds
		On July 27, 1816, Col. Duncan Clinch from Fort Scott in Georgia attacked what had become known as the "Negro Fort." The Negro Fort was taken after a bloody bombardment.
		After that, Fort Gadsden was virtually forgotten until 1862 when the Confederate Army took control of the Fort.
		Today, a tour of the Fort provides visitors with insight to life at a 19th century fort and a taste of that lifestyle.
	www.forestcamping.com /dow/southern/apalinfo.htm (718 words)

	Franklin County (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the end of the War of 1812, the British left a fort here as an arms and supply depot for their Indian allies on the site of the future Fort Gadsden.
		Gadsden, who the fort is named after, would also play a major part negotiating the Treaty of Moultrie Creek with the Seminoles, and the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico years later.
		Today the only thing left of the two forts is the remains of the earthworks that were part of the walls.
	www.tfn.net /SeminoleWar/Counties/c2fran.htm (874 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/Plan of Fort Gadsden
		This 1818 document shows plans for building Fort Gadsden on the site along Florida's Apalachicola River that contained the ruins of Negro Fort.
		The ruined fort was built by the British during the War of 1812 and left to their fl allies when they departed in 1815.
		In 1816, Negro Fort was completely destroyed in an attack by United States military forces.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3h1575.html (89 words)

	The Pioneer
		Recently I was told by a forester that the old Fort Gadsden, where none of the original forts remain, is again under the control of the Federal Government.
		Fort Gadsden was a "temporary fort" since it was made from pine logs that rot away in just a few years.
		Fort Scott, Fort Gadsden and the Arsenal at Chattahoochee, all existed at the time our pioneering forefathers were finding their way in this remote land that we now occupy.
	members.aol.com /justinh001/noble.html (9947 words)

	James Gadsden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Namesake of the Gadsden Purchase, in which the United States purchased from Mexico the land that became the southern portion of Arizona and New Mexico.
		In 1853, he was appointed U.S. minister to Mexico to negotiate the Gadsden Treaty which led to the Gadsden Purchase by the United States from Mexico of about 30,000 square miles in the southern section of what is now Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
		During the War of 1812, Gadsden served in the Army under General Andrew Jackson, and was responsible for the construction of Fort Gadsden in Florida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Gadsden (226 words)

	Fort Gadsden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Garson and the Choctaw chief, among the few who survived the carnage, were handed over to the Creeks, who "Scalped the Choctaw alive and then fatally stabbed him; Garson was shot in execution style." Other survivors were returned to slavery.
		Lanier On The Runaway Slaves at Fort Gadsden.
		Sidney Lanier describes the history of a fascinating fort commandeered by runaway slaves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Gadsden (612 words)

	Seminole
		Osceola, with all the cunning of a Tecumseh and the heroism of a Philip, began the war by an act of perfidy.
		Major Dade, with more than 100 soldiers, was sent from Fort Brooke, at the head of Tampa Bay, to the relief of Clinch, and, falling into an ambuscade (Dec. 28), he and his followers were all massacred excepting four men, who afterwards died from the effects of the encounter.
		Jesup was severely censured for this violation of the sanctity of a flag of truce; but his plea in justification was that it was the only way to stop the distressing war, for Osceola could not be held by the most solemn obligations of a treaty.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /american-indians/seminole.htm (2322 words)

	FHP Troop H Quincy District (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Quincy District Station is located one mile west of the city of Quincy in Gadsden County and the district includes four counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Liberty and Wakulla).
		Gadsden County has a population of 45,078 and encompasses an area of 508 square miles.
		Gadsden county was established in 1823 and named in honor of James Gadsden, Aide-de-camp to General Andrew Jackson in the Florida Campaign of 1818.
	www.fhp.state.fl.us /html/TroopH/quincy.html (287 words)

	Chapter 7: The Thirty Years' Peace
		Riding into Fort Hawkins on the evening of February 9, he was enraged to discover that the contractor who had agreed to supply him with rations had failed to do so.
		But because Jackson needed a supply base nearer than Fort Gadsden, he decided to take the Spanish fort of St. Marks on the way and arranged for his supplies to be brought by ship to the bay of St. Marks.
		Fort Leavenworth, established in 1827 on the Missouri River, was the base for Army expeditions sent out along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/AMH/AMH/AMH-07.htm (5263 words)

	Gadsden Lawyers, BURNS, BURNS & GARNER, Gadsden Attorneys Gadsden Lawyer Gadsden Attorney Alabama Personal Injury ...
		Each of the lawyers in our law firm are born and raised in the Gadsden, Alabama area.
		We are proud to be Alabama personal injury lawyers because that role allows us to represent people who oftentimes are left with catastrophic injuries or loss of a family member with no other legal remedy for the wrong which caused the injury or death except taking the case before a civil court.
		Our law firm is located in Gadsden, Alabama, conveniently on the same block as the Etowah County Courthouse and Judicial Building.
	home.mindspring.com /~seburns (338 words)

	The Negro Fort, Story Panel 1 of 8 - Part One, Early Years - Rebellion
		Plan of Fort Gadsden, constructed in 1818 on the grounds of the Negro Fort.
		The location of the Negro Fort is noted in the top-center of this 1818 sketch by Captain James Gadsden.
		The Fort* was also known as "African Fort," "Prospect Bluff Fort," and "Nicholl's Fort," after the British agent who oversaw its construction.
	www.johnhorse.com /trail/01/b/12.htm (129 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		From Fort Niagara, May 14, 1813 Loomis wrote John Armstrong, secretary of war, accepting the position of assistant deputy quartermaster general and reporting that his bond had been sent to Vermont for sureties.
		In July, 1847, Gen. Mathew Arbuckle, commandant of Fort Gibson, was given command of the Third Military Department with headquarters at Fort Leavenworth; he was ordered to that post and Colonel Loomis was left in command at Fort Gibson.
		He wrote that there were twenty-five Roman Catholics in the fort and he enclosed a questionnaire he had sent to officers in the post and their answers.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v018/v018p219.html (3630 words)

	Distant Drums
		(The fort used in the show is actually Fort San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida.) Things don't go as well as Quincy (Gary Cooper) hoped and they have to take a perilous journey through the Everglades constantly pursued by the Seminoles.
		He traveled to Fayetteville, Huntsville, Fort Deposit, Fort Strother at Tallushatchee, Fort Williams at Talladega, Emuckfaw at Enotachopco, and Horseshoe Bend, then to Fort Jackson on the Coosa River.
		On April 6, Jackson reached St. Marks and informed the Spanish commandant that he had come to garrison the fortress in order to "chastise" the Indians and the fl brigands who were warring against the United States.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/seminole.html (1657 words)

	Trail results for Gadsden
		Calhoun, Jackson, Gadsden, Liberty (North Portion), and Leon...
		Oyster Coast and Forest Pines: Eastpoint to Fort Gadsden...
		Grady, Gadsden FL (County); Ochlockonee River: GA 188 to Florida Border Topo...
	www.trails.com /advancedfind.asp?Keyword=Gadsden (313 words)

	Investigations At Fort Gadsden
		On July 27, 1816, Lieutenant Colonel Duncan L. Clinch, with U.S. forces and 150 Creek Indians, fired on the fort and destroyed it with a "hot shot" cannon ball which exploded in the powder magazine killing all but 30 of 300 occupants.
		While Jackson's forces were at recently onstructed Ft. Gadsden in the spring of 1818, McKrimmon went fishing, lost his way, and after several days was captured by Indians from Francis' Town.
		It is hard to imagine the horrible scene that greeted the first Americans to stand on Ft. Gadsden soil on the morning of July 27, 1816.
	www.coastghosts.com /gads.htm (662 words)

	Gadsden County Florida Genealogy Resources
		The 1860 Gadsden Co FL Census Book, 200 pages (104 of images of the actual census pages and 84 of index of all persons listed) The price of this book is $25.00 plus 3.00 for postage.
		The 1870 Census Gadsden Co FL Book is twice as large as the 1860 (the population increased after the War because the census included the fl population) The price of this book is $35.00 plus 3.00 for postage.
		The boundaries for Gadsden County were set in 1823 by the Florida Territorial Legislature.
	members.aol.com /sweeney303/gadsden.html (1083 words)

	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
		Wright had destroyed a Chehaw village and murdered several of its inhabitants, while many of its members were aiding him in his expedition against the Seminole Indians during the first Seminole War.
		Pensacola, 7 miles outide of Fort Gadsden May 7th 1818 Sir, I have this moment received by express the letter of Genl.
		But it is still more strange that there could exist within the U. States as cowardly monster in human shape, that could violate the sanctity of a flag when borne by any person, but more particularly when in the hands of a superannuated Indian chief worn down with age.
	www.gilderlehrman.org /search/display_results.php?id=GLC00782.11.01 (428 words)

	Your National Forest - Recreational Activities
		Fort Gadsden in Franklin County is the site of an historic fort and several battles.
		Interpretive exhibits and artifacts are displayed along a level pathway on the banks of the Apalachicola River.
		Fort Gadsden in Franklin County is marked with blue blazes and is one loop.
	www.fs.fed.us /r8/florida/recreation/index_apa.shtml (2794 words)

	A Brief History of the Apalachicola Area (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hawkins argued that the Treaty of Fort Jackson ante-dated the Treaty of Ghent.
		After 1814, the area of the future Ft. Gadsden was armed by the British and used by Indians and runaway Negroes to harass United States settlers.
		The Indians ignored the Treaty of Fort Jackson, and General Andrew Jackson went to the area of Ft. Gadsden and built the fort, naming it for its designer.
	www.baynavigator.com /BriefHistory/briefhistory6.cfm (514 words)

	ARROW - Apalachicola Region Resources On the Web - History of the Region
		Apalachicola Fort was established on the west bank of the Chattahoochee at the confluence of the Flint River.
		Pressured by Spanish authorities, Nichols and his British soldiers leave the fort and all its arms with the Indians and former slaves.
		Colin Mitchell lays out the town of Colinton at a place called Prospect Bluff (Fort Gadsden) on the Apalachicola Riverâ¦.âon a fine level plain of pine land, 15 feet above the river at low water, and within the purchase made by J. Forbes and Co. from the Indians.
	www.fnai.org /ARROW/almanac/history/history_regional_timeline.cfm (3151 words)

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