Have you ever heard of a trail-marker tree? Native American guides once bent young saplings and staked them to the ground, training them to grow in a distinctive bent shape that pointed travelers toward water, a safe river crossing, or a trail junction. Several of these living markers have been identified near Fort Mitchell, their […]

Back in the early days at the fort, disputes between officers and settlers were sometimes settled the way they often were on the frontier — with a duel. A stretch of open ground near the fort is remembered as one such dueling ground, where men met at dawn to defend their honor under an agreed […]

The Old Federal Road was originally a postal route, cut through Creek territory in the early 1800s to carry mail between Washington, Georgia and New Orleans. It quickly became the main overland corridor for settlers moving into the Alabama territory, and Fort Mitchell — sitting astride the road where it crossed the Chattahoochee River — […]