Swaggerty Fort

Cocke

?In 1787 James Swaggerty built this unique, cantilevered fort for protection against the indians. It reached out over a stream allowing the inhabitants to lower a bucket directly into it to obtain water without venturing outside. The indiams out-foxed them though. They went upstream and built a dam to divert the flow! This is the only block house left from that period in Cocke County.

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