- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Photograph of Fort Loudoun, British colonial military post from 1756-1760, lower Little Tennessee River] / [by Jefferson Chapman]
- Creator:
- Chapman, Jefferson
- Publisher:
- Photograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, photograph mm042.
- Date of Original:
- 1756/1760
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians
Cherokee art
Antiquities
Art
Salvage archaeology
Historic sites - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Fort Sanders (historical), 35.95889, -83.93389
United States, Tennessee, Monroe County, 35.44265, -84.25279 - Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a photograph of Fort Loudoun, a British colonial military post on the lower Little Tennessee River that was occupied from 1756-1760. It was built in Overhill Cherokee territory in what is presently Monroe County and named for John Campbell, the Earl of Loudoun, who was commander-in-chief of British forces in the colonies. William G. De Brahm designed the fort, but abandoned the project because of disagreements he had with Capt. Demerre who commanded the militia troops and British regulars stationed at the post. Survival of this frontier outpost was dependent upon good relations with the Cherokees who supplied food for trade goods. During the French and Indian War, tensions began to mount between the Cherokees and the colonists. In March 1760 the Cherokees laid siege to the fort, cutting off supplies and forcing its surrender. Excavations of Fort Loudoun were conducted by the University of Tennessee from 1975-1977 in anticipation of the flooding of the lower Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam Reservoir. The excavations were conducted under contract with the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Principal investigator and Field Director, Carl Kutruff.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- mm042
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm042
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm042#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm042/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Rights:
-
