Not
sure where the material on Black Warrior's Town is in MATT CLINTON'S
SCRAPBOOK but in his TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA IT'S EARLY YEARS 1816-1865,
there's this sentence on page 9.
"Thomas P.
Clinton located the town on the north side of Sander's Ferry Road about a
hundred yards west of the intersection of Sander's Ferry Road and old
Highway 11 branching off Eighth Street. He stated that the town was on
the north side of the road and that the fort stood on the south side.
The fort was called Seminole Fort. In the Creek language 'Seminole'
means "Separatist". Since the Creek Territory extended into Georgia and
their chief settlements were on the Alabama River and its branches, the
Creeks on the Warrior were truly separatists. Thomas Clinton owned the
land where he says the fort was located, and he stated that when he had
the field subsoiled, several large Indian cooking vessels and other
artifacts were plowed up."
Thomas Clinton was Matt's Daddy and that property was where Matt grew up.
There
are three more paragraphs related to this subject. I'll type them out
if you're interested or you can find it yourself in a copy of the 1958
book.
BLACK WARRIOR'S TOWN HISTORIC MARKER https://tavm.omeka.net/items/show/2007
from page 73 this link : https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA135936.pdf
There is, fortunately, a more trustworthy statement on record. We
have already cited Archibald McEachin's information, gotten from Isaac
Cannon, that the Seminole Fort, village, and old fields stood below New-
town, on and below a bluff near present Stillman College. A more precise 41
location is given by Thomas P. Clinton.
I always preferred to believe the statement of Martin Sims in
the matter. He was bridgekeeper during the [Civil] war and
perhaps was some time before. He had for quite a time been a
preacher among the Choctaw Indians, and came to Tuscaloosa in
1818, two years after the first white settler. He used to say
that the Indian town was on the property now owned by Mr. E.N.C.
Snow on the Sander's Ferry Road, one and one half miles west of
Tuscaloosa, and known as the Inge place at one time and later as
the O'Connor place. And immediately across the road, on the
south side of the road stood the Seminole fort. I have the
testimony of different persons to this effect. First, I will
say that more than twenty-five years ago an old gentleman, Elias
Wilson, told me of the statement of his grandfather, Wm. Wilson,
who in the early settlement of Tuscaloosa lived at this old Inge
place. He came here in 1816, the year the first settler came.
And he made the statement to his grandson, Elias Wilson, that
the old Indian fort stood just across the road in front of his
house. That would have placed the fort in the edge of my
[Clinton's] field about one hundred yards west of my house in
Section 29 [sic, 21], and the Indian town stood across the road
in Section 28, the road being a section line. A very old regro
4 named Ciarles Whitfield, who died thirteen years ago, told me
that he remembered the remnants of the old fort as it appeared
when he was a boy. And perhaps fifteen years ago I had this
paricular field subsoiled and deeply broken and there were
plowed up several large Indian cooking vessels and other relics
on this particular spot. So everything considered, I think it
safe to conclude that this was the location of the old fort V -
(Clinton n.d.l:10).
have already cited Archibald McEachin's information, gotten from Isaac
Cannon, that the Seminole Fort, village, and old fields stood below New-
town, on and below a bluff near present Stillman College. A more precise 41
location is given by Thomas P. Clinton.
I always preferred to believe the statement of Martin Sims in
the matter. He was bridgekeeper during the [Civil] war and
perhaps was some time before. He had for quite a time been a
preacher among the Choctaw Indians, and came to Tuscaloosa in
1818, two years after the first white settler. He used to say
that the Indian town was on the property now owned by Mr. E.N.C.
Snow on the Sander's Ferry Road, one and one half miles west of
Tuscaloosa, and known as the Inge place at one time and later as
the O'Connor place. And immediately across the road, on the
south side of the road stood the Seminole fort. I have the
testimony of different persons to this effect. First, I will
say that more than twenty-five years ago an old gentleman, Elias
Wilson, told me of the statement of his grandfather, Wm. Wilson,
who in the early settlement of Tuscaloosa lived at this old Inge
place. He came here in 1816, the year the first settler came.
And he made the statement to his grandson, Elias Wilson, that
the old Indian fort stood just across the road in front of his
house. That would have placed the fort in the edge of my
[Clinton's] field about one hundred yards west of my house in
Section 29 [sic, 21], and the Indian town stood across the road
in Section 28, the road being a section line. A very old regro
4 named Ciarles Whitfield, who died thirteen years ago, told me
that he remembered the remnants of the old fort as it appeared
when he was a boy. And perhaps fifteen years ago I had this
paricular field subsoiled and deeply broken and there were
plowed up several large Indian cooking vessels and other relics
on this particular spot. So everything considered, I think it
safe to conclude that this was the location of the old fort V -
(Clinton n.d.l:10).
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The speech I gave last month about walking Tuscaloosa's original street grid. https://independentmonitor.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-creating-exhilarating-new-vision-of.html
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corrected typo "
A very old negro
named Charles Whitfield, who died thirteen years ago, told me
that he remembered the remnants of the old fort as it appeared
when he was a boy."
named Charles Whitfield, who died thirteen years ago, told me
that he remembered the remnants of the old fort as it appeared
when he was a boy."
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