Welcome To Fort Defiance
QUADRILLE, n. quadril', or cadril'.
1. A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded.
2. A kind of dance.
Next Board Meeting...
Second Tuesday of the Month, 6:30 pm
Pardue Church on Memorial Drive
Fort Defiance is located at 120 A Street,
Clarksville, Tennessee
For directions to the fort, see Mapquest
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Join us for the
Second Annual Friends Of Fort Defiance Civil War Ball
And Dinner
with a Memorial Service to be held before hand at Riverview Cemetery at 3:30 pm
at
Smith-Trahern Mansion
101 McClure Street, Clarksville, TN
November 13, 2010
5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $30
Note: Limited Seating. Must reserve in advance.
Period clothing required.
For more info please call:
Phyllis Smith: 931-551-4560
or email pms007@bellsouth.net
Friends of Fort Defiance in Clarksville, Tennessee will be sponsoring their 6th annual March To The Past on Sunday, April 18, 2010, from 1 until 5 pm on private property adjacent to Port Royal Historic Area. The property is located on Old Clarksville-Springfield Road.
Military reenactors as well as civilian reenactors from the area. Displays on soldier’s rations, quilting, sewing, family life, medicine and soldier life are planned. There will be a cannon firing and other military activities.
For directions to the property we suggest you check out Map Quest or Google Maps and search for Port Royal Historic Area in Montgomery County, Tennessee
You can email questions to sylvia@ftdefianceclarksville.com
Come Visit History
Clarksville’s Living History
Encampment and Civil War Ball
Hosted by Friends of Fort Defiance
Come to a weekend filled with cannons, soldiers drilling,
weapon demonstrations, and Camp Life of that era.
Where: Rotary Park, Clarksville, Tennessee
Date: August 29-30, 2009
When: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Ball:
Where: Smith-Trahern Mansion
101 McClure Street, Clarksville, TN
August 29
5:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $30
Note: Limited Seating. Must reserve in advance.
Period clothing required.
For more info please call:
Sherie’ Sykes: 931-358-6239
Phyllis Smith: 931-551-4560
All proceeds from this event will go toward the Ft. Defiance Interpretive Center
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19th Century Proverbs
.....The best things come in small packages.
-late 19th
.....Better be safe than sorry.
-mid 19th
.....Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
-mid 19th
.....Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
-late 19th
.....Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
-early 19th
.....Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
-mid 19th
.....You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.
-early 19th
Fort Defiance Quick Facts
Fort Defiance was once known as Fort Sevier and again as Fort Bruce
The fort sits on a 200 foot high buff overlooking the Cumberland River
A gun platform facing north over-looked the Cumberland river, one gun platform faced west and another bomb-proof gun platform faced south. The main gate of the fort opened to the east.
When Fort Defiance fell to Union troops, the ironclad U.S.S. Cairo and the Conestoga were on the Cumberland River near Clarksville.
Fort Clark was situated on the opposite bank of the Red River from Fort Defiance.
Trenches inside the fort were constructed for communication and at least one powder magazine.
Local historians believe that there still may be one powder magazine under the mounds at Fort Defiance.
Retired Judge Sam Boaz preserved and donated the Fort Defiance site to Clarksville in the mid 1980's.
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