Fort Okfuskee Marker

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Jacksons Gap in Tallapoosa County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Fort Okfuskee
— 6 miles west ——›

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By Tim Carr

1. Fort Okfuskee Marker

Inscription. Built in 1735 by British from Carolina in futile attempt to gain trade of the Creek Indians from the French, located at Fort Toulouse, 40 miles south. Okfuskee was the largest town in Creek Confederacy.

Erected 1953 by Alabama Historical Association.

Location. 32° 52.98′ N, 85° 51.258′ W. Marker is in Jacksons Gap, Alabama, in Tallapoosa County. Marker is on U.S. Highway 280, on the right when traveling north. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Jacksons Gap AL 36861, United States of America.

Also see . . . Georgia Provincial Companies - 1734-1747. "Raised in May 1734, Captain Patrick Mackay's Independent Company of Rangers built and manned Fort Okfuskee on the Tallapoosa River among the Upper Creeks in present Alabama. The company was divided into two separate parties during 1736, but the remnants were on duty among the Creeks and on the coast until 1740. Mounted on horseback, Mackay's Rangers wore broad-brimmed hats, civilian coats, buckskin breeches, leather Indian leggins and shoes. Cartridge boxes, powder flasks, and iron-handled cutlasses hung from belts with brass buckles. Muskets were long-barreled infantry types, but probably not the "Brown Bess" (largely unavailable in Georgia before 1740)." (Submitted on September 11, 2009.)