In May of 1836, the 88th Regiment of the Georgia Militia built a small fort in anticipation of an attack by the Creek Indians. The Steamer Georgian arrived crowded with women and children fleeing from the Indian uprising at Roanoke upriver. The Steamer Anna Calhoun was pressed for 5,000 pounds of bacon and 8 barrels of flour to feed the refugees and militia. The uprising was quelled before the fighting reached Fort Gaines, in one of the last major insurgences of the Creeks before their removal to the West.