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Report of the Tennessee Wars Commission and
Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Research Series No. 17. Library
of Congress Control Number: 2009910668. |
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- Contributions by
Beverly E. Bastian
Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff
Stuart O. Stumpf.
Artifact illustrations by
- Carlyle McCulloch Urello.
Artifact photographs by Carl Kuttruff.
Line drawings by Karen McLean Johnson and Charles P. Stripling
Cover photograph by Carl Kuttruff.
Field and laboratory work, and partial manuscript done under
Tennessee Valley Authority Contract TV-42481A to the Tennessee
Division of Archaeology.
Report edited and produced by
Alexander Archaeological Consultants, Inc.With a grant from the
State of Tennessee Wars Commission. May 2007.
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- Detailed archaeological report.
- An overall summary of the history and
occupation of Fort Loudoun, from the time of its inception in
the 1740s, through its abandonment, and into the early part of
the twentieth century.
- Fort Loudoun is located in East Tennessee,
on the south side of the Little Tennessee River about four miles
east of Vonore, Tennessee.The Cherokee Village of Tuskegee was
situated to the south of Fort Loudoun.
- Interpretaion today focuses on: (a) why
was Fort Loudoun built and what was happening in eighteenth century
North America to require an English fort in this location; (b)
what was the Cherokee-British relationship and what were the
main political and economic factors in that relationship; (c)
what was garrison life like and what was it like to have lived
at Fort Loudoun; and (d) what was the einvironment of the Little
Tennesse River valley and what changes have taken place since
then.
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