Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

2,040-acre park in Alabama (US) maintained by the National Park Service For other uses, see Horseshoe Bend (disambiguation).

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

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Location	Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA
Nearest city	New Site, Alabama
Coordinates	32°58′15″N 85°44′18″W / 32.97083°N 85.73833°W / 32.97083; -85.73833
Area	2,040 acres (8.3 km)
Established	July 25, 1956
Visitors	28,600 (in 2020)
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	Horseshoe Bend National Historic Park

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Built	1813
NRHP reference No.	66000060
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park is a 2,040-acre, U.S. national military park managed by the National Park Service that is the site of the penultimate battle of the Creek War on March 27, 1814.

The military park is located in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. Although New Site is the closest municipality, the park uses a mailing address based in Daviston.

General Andrew Jackson's Tennessee militia, aided by the 39th U.S. Infantry Regiment and Cherokee and Lower Creek allies, won a decisive victory against the Upper Creek Red Stick Nation during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend at this site on the Tallapoosa River. Jackson's decisive victory at Horseshoe Bend broke the power of the Creek Nation.

Over 800 Upper Creeks died defending their homeland. This was the largest loss of life for Native Americans in a single battle in the history of United States.

On August 9, 1814, the Creeks signed the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ceded 23 million acres (93,000 km) of land in Alabama and Georgia to the United States government.

References

"Listing of acreage – December 31, 2020" (XLSX). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved August 15, 2021. (National Park Service Acreage Reports)
"Park Anniversaries". Retrieved August 13, 2021.
"Annual Park Recreation Visits (1960-Last Calendar Year)". nps.gov. National Park Service.
"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
Scott, David (2004). Guide to the National Park Areas Eastern States. Guilford, Conn: Globe Pequot Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-7627-2988-0. OCLC 55075855.
"Horseshoe Bend National Military Park". National Park Service. Retrieved March 1, 2008.

External links

Official website

Protected areas of Alabama

Federal

National Parks and Historic Sites	Horseshoe Bend Tuskegee Airmen Tuskegee Institute
National Monuments	Birmingham Civil Rights Freedom Riders Russell Cave
National Forests	Conecuh Talladega Tuskegee William B. Bankhead
National Wildlife Refuges	Bon Secour Cahaba River Choctaw Eufaula Fern Cave Key Cave Mountain Longleaf Sauta Cave Watercress Darter Wheeler
Wilderness areas	Cheaha Wilderness Dugger Mountain Wilderness Sipsey Wilderness
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Sipsey Fork
Other protected areas	Little River Canyon National Preserve Natchez Trace Trail Pinhoti National Recreation Trail Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Weeks Bay Reserve

State

State Parks	Bladon Springs Blue Springs Buck's Pocket Cathedral Caverns Chattahoochee Cheaha Chewacla Chickasaw Confederate Memorial Park DeSoto Florala Frank Jackson Gulf Joe Wheeler Lake Guntersville Lake Lurleen Lakepoint Meaher Monte Sano Oak Mountain Paul M. Grist Rickwood Caverns Roland Cooper Tannehill Ironworks Wind Creek
State Forests	Choccolocco Hauss Geneva Little River Macon Weogufka
Wildlife Management Areas	Cahaba River Lauderdale Mobile-Tensaw Delta-W L Holland Gaillard Island

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