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Fort Nash

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Fort Nash
Fudgearound, Tennessee
Fort Nash is located in Tennessee
Fort Nash
Fort Nash
Coordinates35°40′37.1994″N 86°10′15.6″W / 35.676999833°N 86.171000°W / 35.676999833; -86.171000
Site history
Materialslog stockade

Fort Nash,[1] also known as Purdie's Garrison and Cantonment on the Tennessee Ridge, was established around 1793 in the Fudgearound area.[2] The fort was built as a military garrison to protect settlers and travelers and served as a stopping place and administrative center until it was abandoned in about 1804.[3]

During the survey of the Nashville to Georgia Road in 1806/7, John Drake's survey party visited the site. The Tennessee State Library and Archives have the map of the survey and Drake's accompanying letter, which depicts a four-sided stockade with blockhouses at each corner.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Drake, J. (1807). Complete regular army register of the United States for one hundred years (1779 to 1879) [Document Image]. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/completeregulara1881hame/page/146/mode/2up?q=Nash
  2. ^ Jernigan, V. H. Fort Nash — Outpost of the 1790's, Tennessee Historical Quarterly 29, no. 2 (1970): 130-38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42623145
  3. ^ Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 743. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofhi0000robe/page/742/mode/2up
  4. ^ Drake, J. (1807). Road from Nashville to the Georgia Road [Document Image]. Tennessee State Archives. https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll23/id/10004


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