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  • Early
  • 1813-14; abandoned after the war
  • City of Atlanta
  • Location approximate

Fort Peachtree (Fort Gilmer)

A small War of 1812 post of log blockhouses, a storehouse and a boatyard, built at Standing Peachtree to send supplies downriver during the Creek War. Nothing of it survives.

See it on the map All Early records

The record

Lt. George R. Gilmer, later a two-term governor, was ordered in October 1813 to build a fort at Standing Peachtree (NGE); the 1966 GHS marker dates its construction to 1814 and another marker to 1813-14. It protected workmen building flatboats to carry supplies to Fort Mitchell; James McC. Montgomery, superintendent of artificers, set up the boatyard on the flat south of the creek, joined to the fort by a bridge. In July 1814 Montgomery described 'two large hew'd logg block houses, six dwelling houses, and one fram'd store house, one Bridge ... and five boats'; the GHS says the fort was never tested and was apparently abandoned after the war. Wikipedia's Standing Peachtree article gives 1812 for the fort, which conflicts with the markers.

Today: No trace of the fort remains on the hill (GHS). A replica near the waterworks is reported but was not verified in this research.