On May 8, 1786, Major Buchanan's brother Samuel left the station to plow the field near Mill Creek, when he was pursued and killed by a group of Native Americans, reportedly after jumping off the bluff. The Buchanans and seven other families lived in small log houses within the enclosure. It comprised a few buildings surrounded by a picket stockade that included a solidly-built blockhouse at the front gate, overlooking Mill Creek. īuchanan's Station was average in size for a fortified stockade in the Cumberland, enclosing roughly 1 acre (0.40 ha). There were two other trails in the vicinity: the Nickajack Trail, a Native American trail leading from Chickamauga Cherokee lands near present-day Chattanooga to Nashville and what became known as the First Holston Road between Nashville and Knoxville. The station was situated on a bluff above Mill Creek and was on an early road later referred to as the road to Buchanan's Mill. Major Buchanan (1759–1832) and his father had moved to the Cumberland River valley from South Carolina in 1779, and helped to build Fort Nashborough, where they resided until 1785. Together with members of the Mulherrin family, Buchanan built a small fort that became known as Buchanan's Station. In the spring of 1783, as the American Revolutionary War was drawing to a close, Major John Buchanan claimed land 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Fort Nashborough. Although smaller raids continued in the region, it was the last major Native American attack on the American settlements in the Cumberland. The assault by a combined force of around 300 Chickamauga Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, and Shawnee, nominally led by Chief John Watts, was repelled by 15 gunmen under Major Buchanan defending the station. On September 30, 1792, it was the site of the critical Battle of Buchanan's Station during the Cherokee–American wars of the late eighteenth century. Founded by Major John Buchanan, the settlement was located in what is today the Donelson neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Photo of site courtesy of Tennessee State Library & Archivesīuchanan's Station was a fortified stockade established around 1784 in Tennessee.
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