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Creation Date
11-12-2012
Building Name
Fort Hogtown
Description
Fort Hogtown Marker, Gainesville, Fl.
This marker is located in the public park on the corner of 34th street.
The text on the marker reads as :
"Fort Hogtown During the Second Seminole War (1835-42), a settler´s fort was built at the Hogtown settlement near this site. Shortly before the onset of that war, men from the Hogtown settlement and from Spring Grove, a community located about four miles to the west, organized a volunteer company of mounted riflemen, the Spring Grove Guards. Spring Grove was at that time the seat of justice in Alachua county (1832-1839). For several months, members of the Guards periodically paraded and patrolled the countryside to protect the inhabitants against Indians. The fort at Hogtown was one of more than a dozen Second Seminole War forts located in or near present-day Alachua County. "
Sponsored by the Alachua County Historical Commission in cooperation with the Florida Department of State.
Latitude, Longitude
29.66166111, -82.37156389
Rights Statement
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Keywords
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