Fort Pickering

Fort Pickering is a Tennessee historical marker in Shelby County.

Shelby Co, Memphis at north boundary of Crump Park

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Around 1800, near the current site of the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge, Capt. Zebulon Pike established this U. S. Army fort, named for Secretary of War Timothy Pickering. It remained as an Indian trading post until the end of the War of 1812. During the Civil War, the Union Army constructed a large earthwork fort with the same name, stretching along the bluffs from Beale Street to DeSoto Park.

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1802 · United States 2. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · Mississippi. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Mississippi (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1835 · Chickasaw Cession, Mississippi (1835) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1916 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Fort Pickering

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