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4 unusual facts about Fort Defiance


Calvin L. Noble

In September, 1833, he located to Fort Defiance, when all the Northwest Territory was "a howling wilderness inhabited by Indians".

Fort Defiance, Tennessee

The Fort has been owned by the City of Clarksville since the mid-1980s, when it was donated to the city by retired Judge Sam Boaz who had owned and preserved the site for some time.

Jerry Claiborne

In 1950 he became the head football and basketball coach at Augusta Military Academy in Fort Defiance, Augusta County, Virginia.

Joseph Christmas Ives

He led his party up the Colorado to the lower end of the Grand Canyon, then struck out across the desert to Fort Defiance in Colorado.



see also

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.