Prospect Bluff Historic Sites (2016 - Present)
Prospect Bluff (pre-1814)
Negro Fort (1814 - 1816)
Fort Gadsden (1816 - 2016)
Franklin County, FL, 9.24.’22
Site of a frontier trading post; a War of 1812 British fort; the Battle of Negro Fort (7.27.1816) during the First Seminole War; and Confederate fort during the American Civil War. Remnants of the Irvington—a steamboat that sank in the Apalachicola River, in 1838—were dredged from the river about 4 miles upstream and have been moved to the park site.
