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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.
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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 ] The station was situated on a bluff above Mill Creek and was on an early road later referred to as the road to Buchanan's Mill. [ 1 ]
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.
When James Robertson and the Watauga settlers established Fort Nashborough in 1778, they were surprised and relieved to find that Demonbreun, a white man, was thriving there. The cave that he lived in is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee in July 1979. It was first explored between 1750 ...
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.