- White's Fort (Tennessee)
White's Fort, also known as James White's Fort, was an 18th century settlement that became
Knoxville, Tennessee , in theUnited States . The name also refers to the fort, itself.The settlement of White's Fort began in 1786 by James White, a militia officer during the
American Revolutionary War . WhenWilliam Blount , the territorial governor of theSouthwest Territory , moved the territorial capital to White's Fort in 1791, he renamed it Knoxville in honor ofHenry Knox , the American Revolutionary War general and Washington's Secretary of War.The fort itself began when James White built a cabin near what is now the corner of State Street and Clinch Avenue. This cabin soon became the center of a cluster of fortified log structures known as White's Fort. The original cabin later became the kitchen of the Kennedy House, which was built in the 1830s. In 1906, when the Kennedy house was demolished for development, Isaiah Ford bought the log structure and moved it to Woodlawn Park. It was purchased again in 1960 by the City Association of Women's Clubs; in 1968, the timbers were reconstructed as part of the fort. The fort still stands on a bluff near its original location. Seven
log cabin s and the stockage fence remain. The cabins house pioneer artifacts and furnishings.References
*cite web | url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=F041 | title=Fort James White | work=The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture | accessdate=2006-03-14
*cite web | url=http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=K017 | title=Knoxville | work=The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture | accessdate=2006-03-14
* Isenhour, Judith Clayton. "Knoxville - A Pictorial History" (Donning, 1978), pages 19 & 168.
* "Knoxville: Fifty Landmarks." (Knoxville: The Knoxville Heritage Committee of the Junior League of Knoxville, 1976), page 26.External links
* [http://www.discoveret.org/jwf/ James White's Fort Association, Inc.]
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