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Fort White (Alabama)

Coordinates: 31°43′40″N 87°45′14″W / 31.72778°N 87.75389°W / 31.72778; -87.75389
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Fort White
Grove Hill, Alabama in United States
Fort White is located in Alabama
Fort White
Fort White
Fort White is located in the United States
Fort White
Fort White
Coordinates31°43′40″N 87°45′14″W / 31.72778°N 87.75389°W / 31.72778; -87.75389
TypeStockade fort
Site information
OwnerPrivate
Controlled byPrivate
Open to
the public
No
Site history
Built1813
Built byMississippi Territory settlers
In use1813
Battles/warsCreek War

Fort White, also known as White's Fort, was a stockade fort built in 1813 in present-day Clarke County, Alabama during the Creek War (part of the larger War of 1812). The fort was located northeast of present-day Grove Hill.[1] The fort was possibly named due to the fact that it offered protection to local white settlers.[2] Other sources state it was named for a local settler.[3] Fort White offered protection to the residents of the community that would eventually become Grove Hill from possible Red Stick attacks.[4] Fort White was likely abandoned after the Fort Mims massacre.[5]

Timothy H. Ball visited the site of Fort White prior to writing his history of the Creek War.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b Halbert, Henry; Ball, Timothy (1895). The Creek War of 1813 and 1814. Chicago, Illinois: Donohue & Henneberry. p. 112. ISBN 9781375702775.
  2. ^ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 66. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. ^ Pickett, Albert James (1878). History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Willo Publishing Company. p. 526. ISBN 978-1363310845.
  4. ^ Owen, Thomas McAdory (1921). History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. 1. Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishingn Company. p. 676.
  5. ^ Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 66. ISBN 0-8173-1125-4.