FIRST -- US Garrison in the Mid-Mississippi River Valley, Memphis TN
N 35° 09.423 W 090° 02.911
15S E 768852 N 3894449
A historic marker in a small park near the intersection of A W Willis and Center Lane, on the northside of downtown Memphis marks the spot of the first US military garrison in the mid-Mississippi Valley.
Waymark Code: WMNK3V
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 03/26/2015
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A historic marker in a small park near the intersection of A W Willis and Center Lane, on the northside of downtown Memphis marks the spot of the first US military garrison in the mid-Mississippi Valley. It tells of a time 30 years before the Trail of Tears, when white Americans and Chickashaw Indian tribes could both work together and live side by side.
The marker reads as follows:
"FORT ADAMS / FORT PIKE (1797-1798)
With Chickasaw approval, Army Captain Isaac Guion erected the United States' first garrison in the mid-Mississippi Valley here in October of 1797. Initially named Fort Adams for the second U.S. President, the stockade was later called Fort Pike, because Adams' name was transferred to a larger fort at Natchez, Mississippi. Fort Pike was vacated in 1798, when Fort Pickering was constructed on a higher part of the bluff."
FIRST - Classification Variable: Place or Location
Date of FIRST: 01/11/1797
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