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Fort Hawkins was a fort built between 1806 and 1810 in the historic Creek Nation by the United States government under President Thomas Jefferson and used until 1824. Built in what is now Georgia at the Fall Line on the east side of the Ocmulgee River, the fort overlooked the sacred ancient earthwork mounds of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, now known as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. The Lower Creek Trading Path passed by just outside the fort's northwestern blockhouse, and continued in a westerly direction until it reached a natural ford on the Ocmulgee River. A trading settlement and later the city of Macon, Georgia, developed in the area prior to the construction of the fort, with British traders being in the area as early as the 1680s. Later, the fort would become important to

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  • Fort Hawkins was a fort built between 1806 and 1810 in the historic Creek Nation by the United States government under President Thomas Jefferson and used until 1824. Built in what is now Georgia at the Fall Line on the east side of the Ocmulgee River, the fort overlooked the sacred ancient earthwork mounds of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, now known as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. The Lower Creek Trading Path passed by just outside the fort's northwestern blockhouse, and continued in a westerly direction until it reached a natural ford on the Ocmulgee River. A trading settlement and later the city of Macon, Georgia, developed in the area prior to the construction of the fort, with British traders being in the area as early as the 1680s. Later, the fort would become important to (en)
  • Le fort Benjamin Hawkins, du nom du colonel Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1816), qui était l'interprète francophone de George Washington, a été construit en 1806 par le nouveau gouvernement américain, contribuant à l'histoire de la Géorgie, sous l'administration du président Thomas Jefferson, pour tenir en respect les anciens territoires indiens situés près de la rivière Ocmulgee, qui reliait à la côte le futur site de la ville de Macon, nommée d'après l'homme d'État de Caroline du Sud Nathaniel Macon. (fr)
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  • Fort Hawkins Archeological Site (en)
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