Big Hill Pond Fortification


Big Hill Pond Fortification
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Pocahontas, Tennessee
Area	12 acres (4.9 ha)
Built	1862 (1862)
MPS	Archeological Resources of the American Civil War in Tennessee MPS
NRHP Reference #	98001182^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 29, 1998

The Big Hill Pond Fortification is a Civil War earthwork in Big Hill Pond State Park, which is located in McNairy County, Tennessee.

The earthwork was built atop a ridge by the Union Army in late 1862, after the Battle of Davis Bridge. It was built to guard the nearby Memphis and Charleston Railroad line.^[2]^[3] It is considered an archaeological site and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ West, Caroll Van. "Big Hill Pond State Park". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
↑ Hardesty, Donald L.; Little, Barbara (2000). Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians. Altamira Press. p. 188.

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