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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.
East Nashville Mounds: 40DV4 Mississippian 1868, 1992 French Lick: 40DV5 Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian 1821, 1860s, 1880s, 1992, 2014 Mississippian features partially excavated during construction of First Tennessee Ball Park in 2014. Parts of the site are intact. Widemeier Site: 40DV9 Paleo-Indian, Archaic Traveller's Rest: 40DV11 ...
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.
River Mouth Length Largest settlement Map Bald River: Tellico River: 6 mi none (Cherokee National Forest) Barren Fork: Collins River: 23.4 mi (37.7 km) McMinnville: Beaver Creek: Clinch River: 44 mi [1] Halls Crossroads: Beech River: Tennessee River: 38.3 mi (61.6 km) Lexington: Big Sandy River: Tennessee River: 60 mi (97 km) Bruceton: Big ...
Michael Wright, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. June 14, 2024 at 10:03 PM ... The book's arrival comes as the United States and Canada are renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty, a 60-year ...
The Biden Administration announced an agreement to pause a lawsuit over Columbia River salmon for up to 10 years and spells out steps for tearing down the four Lower Snake River dams.
Columbia is a city in and the county seat [5] of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. [6] Columbia is included in the Nashville metropolitan area. The self-proclaimed "mule capital of the world," Columbia celebrates the city-designated Mule Day each April.
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 ]