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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.
After losing his brother Alexander at Ft. Nashborough's 1781 "Battle of the Bluff," Buchanan wrote Nashville's first book, John Buchanan's Book of Arithmetic. [ 4 ] After living approximately four years at Fort Nashborough, Buchanan and his family moved a few miles east and established Buchanan's Station on Mill Creek, at today's Elm Hill Pike ...
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 ...
The namesake of Leiper's Fork creek was one of two brothers: Hugh Leiper, who completed an early land survey in the area, or Captain James Leiper, who died in the Battle of the Bluffs at Fort Nashborough in 1781. [2] Growth of the village was stimulated by traffic on the Natchez Trace. Largely as a result of its transportation access, Leiper's ...
On April 2, 1781, they joined the war party of 400 Chickamauga and attacked the Patriot frontier settlement of Bluff Station at Fort Nashborough (present-day Nashville, Tennessee), repeating the assault several months later, on either July 20, 1788, or April 9, 1793.
With the advantages of military training and leadership he returned to Tennessee, then part of North Carolina, and contributed to the settling and development of Fort Nashborough, what was to become Nashville. His original home was called Barton Station and was located on Browns Creek where the Lipscomb University now stands. Samuel was a land ...
The Cherokees are Coming!, an illustration depicting a scout warning the residents of Knoxville, Tennessee, of the approach of a large Cherokee force in September 1793 The Cherokee–American wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old Southwest [1] from 1776 to 1794 between the ...
Kasper Mansker was regarded as one of the earliest innkeepers among the Cumberland settlements. In the spring of 1781, Mansker himself was the victim of an Indian attack and was listed as wounded in the skirmish. This is the only record of an injury suffered by Mansker due to conflict with Native Americans.