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John Donelson (1718-1786), explorateur et aventurier, colonel de l'armée américaine lors de la guerre d'indépendance, fut en 1779 le fondateur, avec James Robertson [1], du Fort Nashborough, qui devint en 1806, la ville de Nashville et la capitale de l'État du Tennessee, incorporé en 1796.
John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer. After founding and operating what became Washington Iron Furnace in Franklin County, Virginia for several years, he moved with his family to Middle Tennessee which was on the developing frontier.
8 oct. 2017 · John Donelson was a land speculator and early settler of Middle Tennessee who led a group of pioneers on a dangerous voyage to the Cumberland settlement in 1779-80. He was a surveyor, a legislator, a colonel, and a signer of the Cumberland Compact.
John Donelson (1718-1786), explorateur et aventurier, colonel de l'armée américaine lors de la guerre d'indépendance, fut en 1779 le fondateur, avec James Robertson [1], du Fort Nashborough, qui devint en 1806, la ville de Nashville et la capitale de l'État du Tennessee, incorporé en 1796.
Learn about John Donelson, one of Tennessee's frontiersmen who led a flotilla of settlers to Nashville in 1779. Watch a webinar on his journey, see his letters and documents, and explore his impact on Nashville's history.
history of Nashville. In Nashville: History. …1780 by another group under John Donelson. Fort Nashborough, built at the site and named for American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, became the centre of the new community. (A replica of the fort stands in a park along the Cumberland River.)
James Robertson and John Donelson are considered the founders, and colloquially, the "founders of Tennessee". The fort was abandoned in 1794, but the settlement, now the town of Nashville, became the capital of the new state of Tennessee in 1796.
