Fort Gilmer
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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 1835. 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 1953
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