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 log stockade was square in shape and covered 2 acres (8,100 m2). It contained 20 log cabins and was protection for the settlers against wild animals and Indians. James Robertson and John Donelson are considered the founders, and colloquially, the "founders of Tennessee". The fort was abandoned in 1794, but the settlement, now the town of Nashville, became the capital of the new state of Tennessee in 1796.
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FortNashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early...
with James Robertson, Donelson co-founded the frontier settlement of FortNashborough. This later developed as the city of Nashville, Tennessee. Donelson...
later FortNashborough, and the site of Nashville, Tennessee, today. In early 1780, Kasper Mansker moved further north and established his own fort, at...
Americans. When James Robertson and the Watauga settlers established FortNashborough in 1778, they were surprised and relieved to find that Demonbreun,...
now East Tennessee to the French Lick. These settlers constructed FortNashborough, which they named for Francis Nash, a brigadier general of the Continental...
further westward, gaining a foothold on the western Cumberland River at FortNashborough (now Nashville), or the Overmountain Men, many of whom had settled...
well as the settlements along the Cumberland River beginning with FortNashborough in 1780, even into Kentucky, plus against the Franklin settlements...
Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais marries Joséphine Tascher. December 25 – FortNashborough (later to become Nashville, Tennessee) is founded by James Robertson...
County in honor of United States General Anthony Wayne. December 25 – FortNashborough, later to become Nashville, Tennessee, is founded by James Robertson...
at the age of 12. Her father led about 600 people from Fort Patrick Henry to FortNashborough, down the Cumberland River. The Donelson family were among...
Charlotte Robertson – two of the founders of Nashville (then called FortNashborough) Wilkins F. Tannehill – Mayor of Nashville from 1825 to 1827. Charles...
Cumberland Association, under the Cumberland Compact, established FortNashborough on the Cumberland River, opening up a second frontier of settlement...
(January 15) Battle of Cape St. Vincent (January 16) A stockade known as FortNashborough is founded on the banks of the Cumberland River (January 28). Two years...
constant source of fresh water. Fort Adair served as a supply station for the Cumberland Guard and later for the town of Nashborough, which would become modern...
Washington District to the French Lick. These settlers constructed FortNashborough, which they named for Francis Nash, a brigadier general of the Continental...
→ Startex Alexandria → Jackson Coal Creek → Lake City → Rocky Top FortNashborough → Nashville Taylorsville → Mountain City Clark → DISH Dechman → Deckman...
Nash's actual service time. Nashville, Tennessee (originally called "FortNashborough"), Nashville, North Carolina, the city of Nashville, Georgia, and Nash...
Chickamauga to attack the Patriot frontier settlement of Bluff Station at FortNashborough (present-day Nashville, Tennessee), which would be assaulted by them...
settlements area that also bears the name when he removed to the vicinity of FortNashborough in the early 1780s. James Thompson had a plantation established on...
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