Marion County GaArchives Photo Place.....FT PERRY HISTORIC MARKER 
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FT PERRY
1813
One half mile due east lies the site of Fort Perry, along the Old Federal 
Road. A stockade fort, defended by block houses, this post was ordered erected 
by General John Floyd of Camden county, as he led a body of 400 Georgia 
Militiamen through this friendly Indian country to fight the Red Sticks across 
the Chattahoochee river in Alabama territory. Completed in October 1813, it 
was named in honor of Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry, Naval hero of the War of 
1812, whose message from the Battle of Lake Erie that "We have met the enemy 
and they are ours" gave him immortal fame.

Additional Comments:
This sign is located just north of the intersection of Fort Perry Road with Ga 
Hwy 41 N in North Marion County

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