- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Photograph of a pit feature excavation at Fort Southwest Point in Kingston, Tennessee, taken circa 1980s] / [by Gerald F. Schroedl]
- Creator:
- Schroedl, Gerald F.
- Publisher:
- Photograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, McClung Museum Photographic Collection, photograph mm064.
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Antiquities
Fort Southwest Point (Tenn.)
Refuse and refuse disposal
Historic sites
Tennessee - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This photograph is of a pit feature being excavated at Fort Southwest Point, located near the city of Kingston, in Roane County, Tennessee. Fort Southwest Point was established in 1792 as a blockhouse post for the territorial militia troops that were protecting white settlers from Indian acts of hostility. By 1797, the militia was replaced by Federal troops, and from 1801-1807, the fort was established as the headquarters for the Cherokee Agency. In 1974, archaeological crews from the University of Tennessee unearthed portions of six fort building foundations, the remains of a massive stone wall, and many fort-period artifacts. A 1984 excavation of the site by the Department of Conservation and the City of Kingston located the sites of a total of thirteen buildings. These buildings include an officer's barracks, four blockhouses, and several buildings that are believed to have been barracks. A complementary excavation in 1986 revealed the location of two more buildings, bringing the total to fifteen buildings. The excavation also produced a more detailed examination of the palisade and stone wall enclosures, and uncovered several historic and prehistoric features. Additional excavations conducted at Fort Southwest Point in the 1990s yielded new information as to the fort's original layout and function, as well as the life ways of the people who occupied the fort.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- mm064
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm064
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm064#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm064/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright by the Frank H. McClung Museum. All rights reserved.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], McClung Museum Photographic Collection, Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 photograph
- Holding Institution:
- Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Rights:
-
