Weekend Volunteers Fort Hawkins

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About FORT HAWKINS FOUNDATION INC

Location:

PO BOX 7344, 736 Emery Highway, MACON, GA 31209, US

Mission Statement

The Fort Hawkins Commission will develop plans and organize activities to bring about the complete restoration of the frontier fort that is the birthplace of Macon, Georgia. The first step will be a fundraising project encompassing both foundations and individuals. As this is underway, the Commission will conduct archaeological studies and historical research allowing the Commission to interpret the Fort Hawkins story accurately and in detail. Once funds are raised, the actual reconstruction of the fort will begin. The work of the Commission is complete when the fort and/or interpretive center is open to the public and a military and historical education program is developed telling the story of the young nation’s struggle to create a country in the southern wilderness.

Description

Fort Hawkins was established in 1806 by President Thomas Jefferson and Indian Agent Col. Benjamin Hawkins as an official U.S. Army Fort and Indian Factory for tranding and meeting with the Native Americans in Middle Georgia. At the time, it was the western frontier and a wilderness. It overlooked the ancient Indian Mounds held sacred by the Muskogee Creek Nation, the "Old Fields". Other landmarks nearby included: the Ocmulgee River, the Lower Creek Trading Path (later to become the Federal Road connecting Washington D.C. to Mobile), and the future site of the city of Macon founded across the river seventeen years later.

Fort Hawkins friends and followers! If you'd like to volunteer at the Fort for 4 hour shifts on Saturdays and Sundays beginning in January, please send a message to this FH Facebook page or group, or email forthawkinsfoundation@gmail.com. We have some great events lined up for this year and.... Fort is open to the public beginning in January 2023. We re-established Friends of Fort Hawkins. Free T-shirt with donation to Friends of the Fort. Please visit us during the Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon during March 17 thru March 26, 2023.