Fort Nash

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Fort Nash
Fudgearound, Tennessee
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Fort Nash
Location of Fort Nash in the state of Tennessee
Coordinates 35°41′18″N86°11′09″W / 35.6884°N 86.1858°W / 35.6884; -86.1858
Site history
Materialslog stockade

Fort Nash, [1] also known as Purdie's Garrison and Cantonment on the Tennessee Ridge, was established around 1793 in the Fudgearound area. [2] The fort was built as a military garrison to protect settlers and travelers and served as a stopping place and administrative center until it was abandoned in about 1804. [3]

During the survey of the Nashville to Georgia Road in 1806/7, John Drake's survey party visited the site. The Tennessee State Library and Archives have the map of the survey and Drake's accompanying letter, which depicts a four-sided stockade with blockhouses at each corner. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Hamersley, Thomas H. S. (1881). Complete regular army register of the United States for one hundred years (1779 to 1879) . p. 146.
  2. ↑ Jernigan, V. H. (1970). "Fort Nash—Outpost of the 1790's". Tennessee Historical Quarterly29 (2): 130-38.
  3. ↑ Roberts, Robert B. (1988). Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States . New York, Macmillan. page 743. ISBN   0-02-926880-X
  4. ↑ Drake, J. (1807). Road from Nashville to the Georgia Road (document image). Tennessee State Archives. Retrieved January 4, 2026.



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