Fort Robinson built by Adam Stephen Oct 1761
1 August 1761, Byrd resigns his command.
Adam Stephen, who is already on this expedition, becomes commander and Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and takes over this expedition to Cherokee lands in September 1761.
By October 1761 Adam Stephen builds Fort Robinson, naming it after the Speaker of the House of Burgesses. He builds this fort on the island in Big Holston river. That area is now known as Kingston, Tennessee.
This is the best website on Fort Robinson:
Field Trip: Fort Robinson
Posted on September 11, 2013 by Kari
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The article was from the Sunday, August 8, 1937 edition of the Kingsport Times. I also found the following photograph in another part of the Spoden Collection.
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The image is date stamped in the corner, 1937. Notice in the above photo that there was no unsightly breakwater separating the two rivers back then.
Today, the site looks like this:
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Field Trip: Fort Robinson
Posted on September 11, 2013 by Kari
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Right by that car in the center is a rock monument. You can see it as a sort of triangular shape above the hood of the car.
That rock monument sits at the Kingsport Greenbelt Parking area.
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Long Island on the South Branch of the Holston river --- excellent aerial photo of it:
Fort Robinson was bulit at the top end of that island in this photo.
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Box 71.
East Tennessee Indians – Cherokee, 1972-1976
Fort Robinson & Fort Loudon, 1987-1988
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