It is hard to imagine the horrible scene that greeted the first Americans to stand here on the morning of July 27, 1816. The remains of the 270 persons killed in the magazine explosion lay scattered about. They also found an arsenal of ten cannons, . . . — — Map (db m114623) HM
Near Addie Road (Forest Road 129-D) 0.8 miles south of Brick Yard Road (Forest Road 129), on the right when traveling south.
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Built in 1814 by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Nichols, His Majesty's Marines, as a rallying point to encourage the Seminole Indians to ally themselves with England against the United States in the War of 1812. Abandoned after 1814, . . . — — Map (db m116355) HM
Near Forest Road 127 4 miles west of State Road 65, on the right when traveling south.
Francis the Prophet, whose Indian name was Hillis Hadjo, was an important Creek chief who was forced to leave his home in the Alabama Territory at the end of the Creek War of 1813-14. He established a new town on the Wakulla River several miles . . . — — Map (db m114624) HM
Near Forest Road 127 0.8 miles south of Fort Gadsden Road, on the left when traveling south.
In 1838 the steamship Irvington, carr[y]ing 200 bales of cotton on a downstream run, burned and sank four miles upstream from here. This 115 foot side-wheeler was constructed in 1836 in Marion, Indiana. These boilers and parts were dredged from the . . . — — Map (db m114622) HM
