Seminole War Path

Seminole War Path is a Georgia historical marker in Randolph County, dedicated 1953.

About 5 miles north of Cuthbert on US 27.

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On this land lot the highway crosses the old trail through Creek Indian territory from Fort Perry on the Old Federal Road to Fort Gaines on the Chattahoochee River. Surveyed by order of General Edmund P. Gaines in 1817, it was blazed by Volunteer Mounted Gunmen of West Tennessee in March 1818. These seasoned gunmen were mustered by order of Major General Andrew Jackson at Fayetteville, Tenn. Many of them had fought with Jackson at Horseshoe Bend in 1814. Reaching Fort Gaines in early April 1818, they proceeded thence to join Jackson's forces in engagements with the Seminole Indians below Fort Scott - at Fowl Town, Ecofinah or Natural Bridge, and Bow Legs Town on the Suwanee River.

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1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · The Southern States and Mississippi Territory (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1816, covering the location of Seminole War Path, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1816, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Seminole War Path

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