Fort-on-Shore, built in 1778 by
William Linn, was the first on-shore fort on the
Ohio River
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in the area of what is now
downtown
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Louisville, Kentucky
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.
George Rogers Clark had directed Linn to move the militia post to the mainland from its original off-shore location at
Corn Island
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. The fort was located near the current intersection of Twelfth and Rowan Streets.
By 1781, the new fort would already prove insufficient, and thus
Fort Nelson was constructed upriver.
See also
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History of Louisville, Kentucky
The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids halfway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site. Louisvi ...
References
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Former buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky
Forts in Kentucky
History of Louisville, Kentucky
Kentucky in the American Revolution
Pre-statehood history of Kentucky
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