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Fort Gilmer Historical Marker
- Fort Gilmer State Historical Marker
- Located on Old U.S. 411 four miles north of Carters,
Ga.
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FORT GILMER
One hundred yards east is the site
of Fort Gilmer, built in 1838 to garrison U.s. troops ordered
to enforce the removal from this region of the last Cherokee
Indians under terms of the New Echota treaty of 1833.
One of seven such forts erected
in the Cherokee territory, Gilmer was the temporary headquarters
of Gen. Winfield Scott, under whose command the removal was effected.
The reluctant Indians were brought here and guarded until the
westward march began
105-2 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 195?
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