Fort Washington Park

Fort Washington Park is the site of a stockade built by the family of Stephen Heard, governor of Georgia in 1781. Cherokee and Creek Indians had ceded their land on June 1, 1773, and settlers from Virginia arrived in December 1773. During the Revolutionary period, the stockade was named Fort Washington in honor of General George Washington. In 1780, the revolutionary government of Georgia granted a charter to lay out a city named Washington, the first incorporated city in the country to be named for George Washington, nine years before he became the first president. The John Nelson Stone is located here, six miles north of the Fortson Place where the granite marker originally was located. It bears the year 1775, when John Nelson received a land grant from King George III of England, the year 1792, and the land grant survey.

Washington, Georgia · United States