In the late 1700s, present-day northwest Georgia was a very different place, and because of conflict with the region's Creek and Cherokee people, white settlers built small forts along treaty boundaries for protection. One of these, originally known as the fort at Hog Mountain, stood at the southern boundary of Cherokee hunting grounds. A letter written on October 21, 1813, by Major General Allen Daniel, commander of the Fourth Division of the Georgia Militia, said that the fort at Hog Mountain needed to be rebuilt to better protect the militia against attackers, and construction on Fort Daniel was completed later that year. That letter, together with circumstantial evidence, led researchers to believe the original fort had been built sometime around 1805. Soon after the rebuilding, work began on a road connecting Fort Daniel with a new fort in the Creek town of Standing Peachtree, a route later known as Old Peachtree Road and originally used to carry war supplies brought by boat down the Chattahoochee River from settlements farther upstream.