Fort Benjamin Hawkins

Fort Hawkins was a fort built in 1806-1809 in the historic Creek Nation by the United States government under President Thomas Jefferson and used until 1821. Built in what is now Georgia at the Fall Line on the east side of the Ocmulgee River, the fort overlooked the sacred ancient earthwork mounds of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, now known as the Ocmulgee National Monument, and the Lower Creek Pathway. A trading settlement and later the European-American city of Macon, Georgia developed because of the fort. During this period, the fort was important to the Creek Nation, the United States and the state of Georgia for economic, military and political reasons. The fort originally had a tall log palisade surrounding a 1- 2-acre (8,100 m)...