Southern Georgia

Last Update: 19/APRIL/2008

Compiled by Pete Payette - Š2008 American Forts Network

Seminole Wars Forts

Charlton County:
Camp Augusta, Race Pond.
Fort Henderson (1838 - 1842), two and one-half miles west of Coleraine.
Fort Tompkins, eight miles west of Coleraine near Folkston
Camp Pinckney (1836 ?, 1838), a supply depot. A state marker locates the site two miles east of Folkston on the St. Mary's River.

Ware County:
Fort Mudge (1813, 1838), Fort Mudge.
Fort A. S. Miller (1) (1838), southeast of Manor.
Fort Muse (1838), east of Fort Miller, southeast of Glenmore.
Fort McLane (1813), east of Fort Floyd, southeast of Needham.
Fort Floyd (1838 - 1839), west of Okefenokee.
Camp Wilde (1838), near Fort Floyd.
Camp Ware (1838), Waresboro.

Clinch County:
Fort Rosa (1841), on the Suwannee River at "Blunt's Ferry". Also known as Norton's (or North's) Station. Regarrisoned in 1842 as Fort Norton (1), aka Fort Repose.
Fort Dearborn (1838), near Fargo at confluence of Suwanoochee Creek and Suwannee River. State marker near site.
Fort Tatnall (1) (1838), on Suwannee River northeast of Fargo.
Fort Barnum (1840), north of Fort Tatnall.
Smith's Fort, Argyle.

Echols County:
Fort Gilmer (2) (1838 - 1841), southwest of Fargo on the Suwannee River below Suwanoochee Creek. State marker at site.

Unknown locations:
Fort La Motte (1838)
Fort Walker (1) (1838), northeast of Fort Tatnall on "Chepucky Island".

Blackshear Prison Camp
(1864), Blackshear
A temporary Union POW camp built in November 1864 after Camp Lawton was threatened by the advance of Union General Sherman's "March to the Sea". The 5000 prisoners here were then transferred to Thomasville in December 1864. State marker at site.

Fort (John) Peterson
(1830's ?), Huffer
A settlers' stockaded fort enclosing two or three acres, with several dwellings for refugee families.

Camp Clyatt
(1836), near Clyattville
A temporary encampment of the GA state militia during the Creek War. Site located east of town.

Camp Townsend
(1836), Lowndes County
A temporary encampment during the Creek War.

Fort Futch
(1836), near Adel
A settlers' fort on the Withlacoochee River east of town, at "Futch's Ferry".

Fort McCranie
(1836), near Chaserville
A settlers' fort on Brushy (Bushy ?) Creek. The Battle of Bushy Creek took place nearby in 1836.

Fort Morrison
(1836), near Adel
A settlers' fort on Morrison Creek south of town.

Thomasville Prison Camp
(1864), Thomasville
A temporary five-acre Union POW camp built when raids were feared on Camp Sumter in Andersonville. 5000 Union POWs were also transferred here in December 1864 from the camp in Blackshear. All prisoners were then taken back to Camp Sumter. State marker at site on Wolf Street. "Dead line" trenches still remain.

Fort Hughes
(1817), Bainbridge
A temporary stockade, a subpost of Fort Scott. The site is located in Chason Memorial Park. It served as a supply depot during the First Seminole War.

Fort Scott
(1816 - 1821), near Bethany
Command post for Andrew Jackson's Seminole Campaign of 1818. Originally called Camp Crawford, it was fortified and renamed soon thereafter, but was briefly abandoned from December 1816 until the spring of 1817. The fort was dismantled in 1821. The site was almost inundated by the impoundment of Lake Seminole, located south of town about one mile west of GA 310.

Across the Flint River, three miles away in Recovery was Camp Recovery (1820), a hospital camp for Fort Scott. Another state marker.

Fort Apalachicola
(1755), near Fairchild
A British work at the confluence of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers. Site inundated by Lake Seminole.

Col. Edward Nicoll's Outpost
(Seminole State Park)
(1814), near Fairchild
A British outpost built at the confluence of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers. No remains, site inundated by Lake Seminole.

Fort Gaines
(Fort Gaines Frontier Village)
(1814 - 1819, 1836, 1863 - 1864), Fort Gaines
A recreated pioneer frontier village located south of town on Bluff Street is the original site of the post. The original settlers' fort was rebuilt with two blockhouses and garrisoned by Federal troops 1815 - 1819. It was dismantled by 1830. One of the blockhouses (Outpost Replica) has been reconstructed in town on Commerce Street. A temporary stockade was built here in 1836 by the GA state militia (marker erected in 1996). A CSA three-gun earthwork battery by the same name was also built here. One of the batteries and one surviving gun can still be seen on the bluff.

Fort Ingersol
(1836), Florence
A temporary log stockade built by the GA state militia. A state marker locates the site one mile east of town.

Fort Jones
(1836), near Florence
A temporary log stockade built by the GA state militia. Troops from this position rescued others during the nearby Battle of Shepherd's Plantation. A state marker locates the site two miles south of town.

Fort McCreary
(1836), near Omaha
A GA state militia fort on Fort Hill. Reconstructed, and tours can be arranged through Florence Marina State Park. A state marker locates the site one mile north of Florence.

Lumpkin Blockhouse (1)
(1836), Lumpkin
The original Stewart County Courthouse, constructed of logs, was built in 1830 and fortified in 1836 during the Creek War.

Camp Sumter
(Andersonville National Historic Site)
(1864 - 1865), Andersonville
A notorious POW camp for Union troops during the Civil War. There were eight defensive earthworks around the camp, some of which still remain. 50,000 Union prisoners were here at one time or another. 13,000 died here. The stockade has been reconstructed. On site is the National Prisoner of War Museum. Of interest nearby is Andersonville Civil War Village. Another website from Oglethorpe.Corinthian.net.

Camp Gilman
(1898), Americus
A Spanish-American War winter training camp.

Camp Churchman
(1898), Albany
A Spanish-American War training camp.

Fort Early
(1814 - 1818), near Coney
A temporary stockaded fort on the Flint River manned by the GA state militia and Federal troops. No remains.

Fort Green (2)
(1813), Dooly or Pulaski Counties ?
One of four stockaded forts constructed about 10 miles apart west of Hawkinsville to protect the frontier.

Fort Mitchell
(1813), Dooly or Pulaski Counties ?
One of four stockaded forts west of Hawkinsville.

Fort Pike
(1813), Dooly or Pulaski Counties ?
One of four stockaded forts west of Hawkinsville.

Fort Hartford
(1813 - unknown), Hawkinsville
A GA state militia stockaded fort built to protect against the Creek Indians. The Blackshear Trail was built in 1814 from here to Fort Early on the Flint River.

Bush's Fort
(1790's - 1795), Laurens County
A settlers' fort destroyed by Indians in October 1795. Site located near Ben Hall Lake west of Lovett.

NEED MORE INFO: Fort Wilkins (1800's ?) on the Oconee River frontier (location ?); Cooper's Post (civilian, 1836) west of Withlacoochee River (may actually be in Florida). Fort Hill in East Albany.
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Special thanks to Dale Cox for info on several of the early Federal and state militia forts of the Georgia Indian campaigns.

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