Category:Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee)
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Location is in the Chicksaw Heritage Park at Metal Museum Drive in Memphis, Tennessee.
Images show Paleo-Indian mounds of unknown age. The site was Chief Chisca's Chickasaw fortress. In 1739 it was the location of French Fort Assumption. In the Civil War it was the site of Confederate Fort Pickering. For the use as Civil War Fort the top was hollwed out and artillery placed there, an ammunition bunker was dug into the side of the mound.
Media in category "Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee)"
The following 14 files are in this category, out of 14 total.
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 01 plaque DeSoto.jpg 1,024 × 773; 796 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 02 plaque Chisca fortress.jpg 1,024 × 1,356; 1.21 MB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 03 plaque Fort Pickering.jpg 1,024 × 773; 744 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 04 main mound hollow top.jpg 1,024 × 773; 777 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 05 main mound hollow top.jpg 1,024 × 773; 772 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 06 main mound Mississippi River view.jpg 1,024 × 773; 688 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 07 main mound bunker entrance.jpg 1,024 × 773; 815 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 08 main mound.jpg 1,024 × 773; 713 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 09 second mound.jpg 1,024 × 773; 720 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 10 second mound.jpg 1,024 × 773; 687 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 11 second mound.jpg 1,024 × 773; 696 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 12 second mound.jpg 1,024 × 773; 720 KB
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4th Bluff Mounds Memphis TN 13 second mound.jpg 1,024 × 773; 674 KB
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