FORTS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA

• (Jeremy Smith’s Station, Fort Christian)–constructed 1774, palisade

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Blackmore’s Fort

Mouth of Stoney Creek, Clinch

• Elk Garden Fort –constructed 1774, palisade

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Duncan’s Fort

between Dungannon and Gray’s Island

• Fort Blackmore –constructed 1774, construction not known, but probably palisade

• Houston’s Fort –constructed by 1776, construction not known, but probably palisade

home of Benjamain Nicholson, on Clinch River near Gray’s

?

Nicholson’s Fort.

• Black’s Fort –probably a block house.

Island

• Anderson’s Blockhouse –constructed 1775, blockhouse, at beginning of Boone’s Wilderness Road

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Porter’s Fort

Falling Creek near Dungannon

• Martin’s Station –constructed after 1775, construction not known, probably a Blockhouse, way station on

Boone’s Wilderness Road

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Kilgore’s Fort House

Hamilton has it as about one mile southeast of Nickelsville.

Others place it 12 miles east of Nickelsville; Penley gives

Map Name(s) by which

Source if Different

Approximate Location

its location as “about one mile southeast of Nickelsville,

Key

known

from Hamilton

Dorton’s Fort

Virginia on what is known as the Combs farm. This was the

Powell River Watershed

home of William Dorton, Sr., who was killed by the Indians

in July 1780. it was probably built in the 1770s. The Court

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Martin’s New Station

two miles from Cumberland Gap

records at the 1780s refer to it as Dorton’s old fort.”

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Gibson’s Station

4 miles from Cumberland Gap; at modern “Gibson’s Station”

Moore’s Fort, Fort

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Castle’s Wood

Ten miles below Martin’s Old Station, near Ewing; 10

Byrd, Snoddy’s Fort.

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Owen’s Station

miles from Cumberland Gap

Cowan’s Fort, Fort

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Martin’s Old Station

north side of Martin’s Creek; 20 miles from Cumberland Gap,

Preston, Bush’s

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Castle’s Wood

Fort, Russells Fort ,

5-6 miles above Martin’s Station, on no water course,

Bickley’s Fort

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Priest’s Fort

between Rose Hill and Jonesville; 25-26 miles from

Cumberland Gap

Glade Hollow Fort

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near Lebanon

Christian

Sinking Springs, west of Jonesville, 20 miles from Martin’s

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Mump’s Fort

Station; 30 miles from Cumberland Gap

just south of State Route 19, near Elk Garden Methodist

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Elk Garden Fort

Church

Kentucky Trace. Hamilton says it was between Woodway

and Dryden, but other’s suggest it was on Station Creek, on

Guest’s Station,

Rocky Station, Rocky

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at Coeburn, Wise Co.

US 58, about halfway between Jonesville and Stickleyville;

Guesses Station

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Springs Station,

This later location makes more sense since that location

Cocke’s Station

Osborne’s Fort,

places it clearly on the Kentucky Trace, while Hamilton’s

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Osman’s Fort,

On Clinch River

location places it well to the north.

Ritchie’s Fort

On Powell River, between Dryden and Woodway per

Lower Holston Watershed

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Yokum’s Station

Hamilton, on Powell River “near the highway bridge” in

Turkey Cove per others.

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Fort Patrick Henry

Long Island of the Holston, Kingsport

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Scott’s Fort

headwaters of Wallen’s Creek, Kentucky Trace

Anderson’s

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Start of Wilderness Road

Blockhouse

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Chadwell’s Station

Wilderness Road, about 1 miles west of Ewing

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Houston’s Fort

near Snowflake on Moccasin Creek

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Black’s Fort

Abingdon; stockaded, blockhouse

Clinch River Watershed

Rye Cove Fort,

Rye Cove Station,

Rye Cove, 8 miles from North Fork of the Clinch, a half

Upper Holston Watershed (some of these are actually in the Upper Clinch)

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Crissman’s Fort, Fort mile off from west side Cove Creek

Located on the North Fork of the Holston River near

Lee, Carter’s Fort

Benham’s Fort

Mendota, VA

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