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Founded in 1816 on a Chattahoochee bluff to guard southwest Georgia's frontier after the Creek War, this post anchored the line opened by the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson; the town grew into the only Georgia frontier fort still surviving as an incorporated city.
Fort Gaines is a historical marker in Fort Gaines, Clay County, erected in 1957. It is one of 19 historical markers documented in Clay County, among 63 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.6052, -85.0547 near Fort Gaines. The nearest cataloged historic site is The 1836 Fort (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include In the Confederacy, The Old Lattice Bridge, and Fort Gaines Cemetery.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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