Fort White (Alabama)

United States historic site in Alabama

Fort White

Grove Hill, Alabama in United States

Fort White

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Coordinates| 31°43′40″N 87°45′14″W﻿ / ﻿31.72778°N 87.75389°W﻿ / 31.72778; -87.75389
Type| Stockade fort
Site information
Owner| Private
Controlled by| Private
Open to
the public| No
Site history
Built| 1813
Built by| Mississippi Territory settlers
In use| 1813
Battles/wars| Creek War

Fort White, also known as White's Fort, was a stockade fort built in 1813 in present-day Clarke County, Alabama during the Creek War (part of the larger War of 1812). The fort was located northeast of present-day Grove Hill.[1] The fort was possibly named due to the fact that it offered protection to local white settlers.[2] Other sources state it was named for a local settler.[3] Fort White offered protection to the residents of the community that would eventually become Grove Hill from possible Red Stick attacks.[4] Fort White was likely abandoned after the Fort Mims massacre.[5]

Timothy H. Ball visited the site of Fort White prior to writing his history of the Creek War.[1]

## Gallery

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* Map of Alabama during the War of 1812. Fort White is located in the upper center.

## References

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1. ^ a b Halbert, Henry; Ball, Timothy (1895). The Creek War of 1813 and 1814. Chicago, Illinois: Donohue & Henneberry. p. 112\. ISBN 9781375702775.
2. ^ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 66\. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
3. ^ Pickett, Albert James (1878). History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Willo Publishing Company. p. 526\. ISBN 978-1363310845.
4. ^ Owen, Thomas McAdory (1921). History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. 1\. Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishingn Company. p. 676.
5. ^ Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 66\. ISBN 0-8173-1125-4.

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