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Fort Mountain State Park is a 3,712-acre (15.02 km 2) Georgia state park located between Chatsworth and Ellijay on Fort Mountain. The state park was founded in 1938 and is named for an ancient 885-foot-long (270 m) rock wall located on the peak. [ 1 ]
A main feature of Fort Mountain is an ancient rock formation or ruin of unknown origin, from which the mountain takes its name. The site lies within Fort Mountain State Park and consists of a series of stone piles lying in a long uneven line that follows the contour of the mountainside. [2] Estimates of its length vary.
Fort Mountain wall ruins. The Moon-eyed people are noted in a 1968 [11] historical marker in Fort Mountain State Park, Chatsworth, Georgia. [12] Stories of the people appear in park guides and news articles of that era, in speculations about the origin of the wall. [7]
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; ... Fort Mountain can refer to Fort Mountain (Carroll County, Arkansas), 1,686 ft (510 m)
Fort McAllister State Park is a 1,725 acres (698 ha) Georgia state park located near Keller and Richmond Hill in south Bryan County, Georgia and on the south bank of the Ogeechee River (some parts of the park border the Atlantic Ocean). It is roughly ten miles south of Savannah.
1955 – Fort Henry Bridge and Jesuit Wheeling College open. 1970 – Wheeling Area Genealogical Society founded. [22] 1976 – Wheeling Park High School established. 1977 – Oglebay's Good Zoo established. [23] 1983 – Alan Mollohan becomes U.S. representative for West Virginia's 1st congressional district. [24]
A year after the fort was abandoned, local residents disassembled the fort for its nails and wood. In 1895, a new Fort Lincoln was built across the river near Bismarck. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the deed to the original fort's land over to the state as Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. [11]
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is a California state park, located in Eureka, California, United States.Its displays interpret the former U.S. Army fort, which was staffed from 1853 to 1870, the interactions between European Americans and Native Americans in roughly the same period, logging equipment and local narrow gauge railroad history of the region.