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Fort Jefferson

Ballard County, United States · built 1800

Fort Jefferson was a small 18th-century stockade fort built by Virginia at the mouth of the Ohio in present-day Kentucky. It was constructed in 1780 by Clark's Illinois Battalion during the American Revolutionary War. The fort was abandoned in June 1781.

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