Benjamin Hawkins
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Benjamin Hawkins was an American planter, statesman and a U.S. Indian agent. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from North Carolina, having grown up among the pl
NC Congress Benjamin Hawkins
Benjamin Hawkins, portrayed on his plantation, teaches Creek people to use European technology. Painted in 1805.
Bust on display at Fort Benjamin Hawkins
Fort Benjamin Hawkins, Georgia (U.S. state)
Fort Benjamin Hawkins
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Fort Hawkins was a fort built between 1806 and 1810 by the United States Army during President Thomas Jefferson's administration. Built in what is now Georgia on the Fall Line on the east side of the
Benjamin Hawkins
…built a fort at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, to protect expanding settlements just east of modern Macon, Georgia, the government named it Fort Benjamin Hawkins in his honor. Hawkins saw much of his work to preserve peace destroyed in 1812. A group of Creek rebels, known as Red Sticks, were working to revive…
Fort Hawkins c. 1876
upper level of fort blockhouse
middle level of fort blockhouse