Fort Strother
Fort Strother Site | |
1820 map by John Coffee showing Fort Strother (located in bottom left corner) in relation to Fort Armstrong and other Cherokee towns | |
| Nearest city | Ragland, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′49″N 86°02′51″W / 33.76361°N 86.04750°W |
| Area | 334 acres (135 ha) |
| Built | 1813 |
| NRHP reference No. | 72001440 |
| Added to NRHP | July 24, 1972 |
Fort Strother was a stockade fort at Ten Islands in the Mississippi Territory, in what is today St. Clair County, Alabama. It was located on a bluff of the Coosa River, near the modern Neely Henry Dam in Ragland, Alabama. The fort was built by General Andrew Jackson and several thousand militiamen in November 1813, during the Creek War and was named for Captain John Strother, Jackson's chief cartographer.