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Marr's Fort

U.S. 411, 0.8 mile south of Old Fort, TN , USA
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This fort was built 0.4 miles south in 1837, to facilitate assemblage of the Cherokee Nation for its enforced removal westward. A blockhouse, one of its corner bastions, survives. It was removed in 1932 and re-erected in the yard of the high school at Benton, about 10 miles north.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00