Fort Nashborough

  • Also Known As: Bluff Station
  • Also Known As: Cumberland River Fort
  • Also Known As: Fort Bluff
  • Also Known As: French Lick Fort

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Fort Nashborough is a partial reconstruction of an 18th century fort at Riverfront Park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The original stocked settlement had 20 log cabins. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1780/04/17 John Donelson Leader John Donelson meets up with James Robertson at Big Salt Lick and establishes Fort Nashborough, this will eventually become Nashville. A compass and a desk belonging to Donelson that were brought down the river from Wautauga can be found at Cleveland Hall. A Great Leap Westward
1780/04/17 James Robertson (explorer) Work John Donelson's party, boating down the Cumberland River, rendezvous with James Robertson's party, who had traveled overland, at Big Salt Lick and establishes Fort Nashborough. A Great Leap Westward
1781/01/11 Felix Robertson Born Charlotte Reeves Robertson, wife of James Robertson, gives birth to a son, Felix Robertson, in Fort Nashborough, Territory South of the River Ohio, United States of America.

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Sight Category Building




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