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Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The fort was not a military garrison.
The site they chose was known as French Lick, later Fort Nashborough, and the site of Nashville, Tennessee, today. An early map of late-18th century frontier forts or "stations" which depicts Mansker's Station, in the Upper Cumberland River valley of Middle Tennessee.
Mansker's station was a log fort that protected travelers along the road from Indian attacks. Mansker first built the fort along Mansker Creek in 1780, near Goodlettsville, after Fort Nashborough was built at the current site of Nashville.
Together with members of the Mulherrin family, Buchanan built a small fort that became known as Buchanan's Station. [4] Major Buchanan (1759–1832) [1] and his father had moved to the Cumberland River valley from South Carolina in 1779, and helped to build Fort Nashborough, where they resided until 1785. [5]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Fort Nashborough; Fort Negley; O. Old Stone Fort (Tennessee) P. Fort Pickering (Memphis ...
The Cumberland Compact was signed at a Longhunter and native American trading post and camp near the French Lick [1] aka the "Big Salt Springs" on the Cumberland River on May 13, 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson and John Donelson, where the group settled and built Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee.
John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer.After founding and operating what became Washington Iron Furnace in Franklin County, Virginia for several years, he moved with his family to Middle Tennessee which was on the developing frontier.
Postcard with an illustration of the reconstruction of Fort Nashborough. The first Europeans to reach what is now Middle Tennessee were probably an expedition in 1540–1541 led by Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto. [6] [7] By the late 17th century, the French had begun to explore the Cumberland River valley in Middle Tennessee. In 1714, a ...