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The fort was a roughly square bastioned earthworks, whose extent spread across where North Loudoun Street runs. [ 2 ] The property at 419 North Loudoun encompasses the historic heart of the fort, including a well dating to the fort's construction, and a portion of its northwest bastion. [ 2 ]
The construction of the fort was to be a joint effort by Virginia and South Carolina. The party from South Carolina was hampered by bureaucratic delays, however, and the Virginians, led by Major Andrew Lewis, reached the Cherokee "mother town" of Chota in the Little Tennessee River valley on June 28, 1756, several weeks ahead of the party from the other colony. [5]
Fort Loudoun may refer to: Fort Loudoun (Tennessee), a British colonial fort in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee, United States; Fort Loudoun (Pennsylvania), a ...
At the beginning of the French and Indian War, Edward Braddock's defeat left Pennsylvania without a professional military force. [1] Lenape chiefs Shingas and Captain Jacobs launched dozens of Shawnee and Delaware raids against British colonial settlements, [2] killing and capturing hundreds of colonists and destroying settlements across western and central Pennsylvania. [3]
Fort Loudoun Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652-mile (1,049 km) navigable river channel from ...
Fort Loudoun Lake is a reservoir in east Tennessee on the upper Tennessee River, extending about 50 miles (80 km) along the river upstream from Fort Loudoun Dam, at Lenoir City, to Knoxville. Fort Loudoun Reservoir takes its name from the 18th-century British fort built on a nearby site during the French and Indian War .
The community is named after the colonial Fort Loudoun, built in 1756 during the French and Indian War. [5] A replica of the fort, built in 1993, stands at the corner of US 30 and Brooklyn Road North, at the southeastern corner of the CDP. A post office called Loudon was established in 1814, and the name was changed to Fort Loudon in 1883. [6]
Fort Loudoun State Historic Park is a state park in Monroe County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Established in 1977, it houses the reconstructed Fort Loudoun along with an interpretive center and recreation area. Park staff also maintain the nearby Tellico Blockhouse site.