Fort Mims (Ala.)
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Name (Hebrew)
פורט מימס (אלבמה)
Name (Latin)
Fort Mims (Ala.)
Other forms of name
Mims, Fort (Ala.)
Coordinates
-87.83797 -87.83797 31.1805 31.1805 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Fortification Alabama
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q2888531
Library of congress:
sh 99011498
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: NUCMC data from Univ. of West Fla., Spec. Coll. Dept. for Holmes, T.G. Notes taken from the lips of Dr. Thomas G. Holmes in relation to various expeditions made by Captain Blue, Colonel Benton, and others in 1814(typescript on the history of Fort Mims)
- Enyc. of historic forts(Fort Mims; famous in early 19th-century history, situated approx. 12 miles north of Stockton, Baldwin Co., Ala.; during summer of 1813 area settlers build a stockade surrounding the home of Samuel Mims who operated a ferry on the Alabama River; square fort enclosing an acre of ground, large formidable gates in the eastern and western curtains; blockhouse begun but never finished; at time of massacre held 553 persons; Aug. 30, 1813 a thousand warriors stormed through an open gate; carnage lasted 2 to 3 hours with only 36 white survivors; 1955 5 acre site donated to the state of Ala.; Sept. 1972 site was listed on National Register of Historic Places; monument erected by U.D.C. to mark approximate site of Fort Mims)
Wikipedia description:
The Fort Mims massacre occurred on August 30, 1813, at a fortified homestead site 35–40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, during the Creek War. A large force of Creek Indians belonging to the Red Sticks faction, under the command of Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, stormed the fort and defeated the militia garrison. The Red Sticks performed the massacre, killing almost all the remaining mixed Creek, white settlers, and militia at Fort Mims. Afterward, they took nearly 100 enslaved African Americans as captives. The small fort consisted of a blockhouse and stockade surrounding the house and outbuildings of settler Samuel Mims.
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