Fort Watauga
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Fort Watauga, also known as Fort Caswell, was a fortification located in the Watauga River's Sycamore Shoals near modern-day Elizabethton, Tennessee. It was constructed from 1775 to 1776 by the Wataug
The reconstructed Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park.
Depiction of the Cherokee assault on Fort Watauga in July 1776. Future Tennessee governor John Sevier is shown pulling his future wife, Catherine "Bonny Kate" Sherrill, over the fort's palisades.
Fort Watauga's palisade, parapet, and north corner cabin
Watauga Association
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The Watauga Association was a semi-autonomous government created in 1772 by frontier settlers living along the Watauga River in what is now Elizabethton, Tennessee. Although it lasted only a few years
DAR monument in Elizabethton, Tennessee, recalling the establishment of the Watauga Association
Roads of Tennessee in 1795