Fort-on-Shore

Fort-on-Shore was the first building erected on the mainland when General George Rogers Clark and the settlers of Corn Island came ashore. Built in 1778-79 on General Clark's orders, the stockade and fort was the first settlement in what is now Louisville. Corn Island lay in the Ohio River adjacent to this site at what is today Twelfth St. The stockade was occupied by troops of the American Revolution for the next four years. In 1782, Fort-on-Shore was replaced by Fort Nelson, a much larger fortification built north of present-day Main St.

Louisville, Kentucky · United States