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Caption: An additional, earlier Fort Cumming Marker
Additional Description: Site of Fort Cummings Indian Stockade, LaFayette, Georgia. Postcard by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Historic Postcards collection, Georgia Archives, University System of Georgia.

On this site stood Fort Cummings known as the Old Cherokee Indian Stockade built 1838
Capt. Samuel Fariss commanding the Georgia Volunteers here they guarded the Indians until their removal west
Erected … by the William Marsh Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
Submitted: December 7, 2018, by J. Makali Bruton of Accra, Ghana.
Database Locator Identification Number: p456448
File Size: 0.063 Megabytes

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