Ft. Cooper

On April 2, 1836 Major Mark Anthony Cooper built a block house on a bluff overlooking Holathlikaha Lake while under attack from the Indians. A Fort was established and later abandoned. In 1900 there were sixty-nine inhabitants of which twenty-one were black. Some of the families calling Ft. Cooper home were; the James Hampton, the Steven F. Cason (Florida Pioneer) and the Gills Rutherford families. Included was William W. Hiller, an overseer of convicts and William Smith, a day laborer at the turpentine still.

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