Historical Marker

Queen City of the Chattahoochee

Fort Gaines · Clay County · Erected 1957

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The Story

Perched on a high bluff, antebellum Fort Gaines was among the busiest Chattahoochee ports between Apalachicola and Columbus, its warehouses packed with cotton loaded onto paddlewheel steamboats until railroads arrived in 1858.

About this site

Queen City of the Chattahoochee 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 31.6035, -85.0489 near Fort Gaines. The nearest cataloged historic site is Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Clay County, Clay County Courthouse, and Clay County Courthouse.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 31.6035, -85.0489 · Fort Gaines, Clay County

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