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Tellico & Cherohala Park

Tellico Blockhouse

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The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in what developed as Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee. Completed in 1794, the blockhouse was a US military outpost that operated until 1807; the garrison was intended to keep peace between the nearby Overhill Cherokee towns and encroaching early Euro-American pioneers in the area in the wake of the Cherokee–American wars.

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Dish uncovered at the Tellico Blockhouse site in Monroe County, Tennessee, United States, on display at the Fort Loudoun State Park museum.
Brian Stansberry (photographer) · CC BY 3.0
John Lodge 1754 map showing the location of Okfuskee (spelled Ockfuskee in center of image).
John Lodge · Public domain
The remnants of a jug uncovered at the Tellico Blockhouse (1794–1807) site in Monroe County, Tennessee, United States, on display at the Fort Loudoun State Park…
Brian Stansberry (photographer) · CC BY 3.0

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