FORT MIMS Battlefield — Stockton, Alabama Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fort-mims-alabama/ Battlefield in Alabama; research record. A battlefield in Stockton, Alabama, Fort Mims is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Battlefield in Alabama; research record. HauntHunt files it with battlefields, dark history and the Civil War. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The ground is open to visitors. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which. Fort Mims was a stockade around a plantation that became the Creek War's starting gun. By August 1813 the Red Stick faction — Creeks following Tecumseh's brother the Prophet, armed through Spanish Pensacola — were already at war with their own accommodationist kin. Roughly 400 people — settlers, allied Creeks, enslaved African Americans — had crowded behind Samuel Mims's hastily built one-acre stockade on the Tensaw when 700 Red Sticks under William Weatherford rushed the open gate at noon on August 30. The defense lasted four hours — Major Beasley and half the garrison died in the first minutes; Captain Dixon Bailey, himself Creek, held the stockade until burning arrows set the buildings alight. Then came the killing that gave the event its name: about 250 defenders and civilians dead, a hundred captives taken, only a few escaping to the swamp. 'Remember Fort Mims' became the war's rallying cry — Andrew Jackson's volunteers answered, and the war ended at Horseshoe Bend with the Creek Nation broken. The site is a state historic site now, closed to casual visitation, the ground where a frontier plantation's stockade became the war that cost the Creek Nation 20 million acres. The file keeps the full complexity — a Native civil war, a settler refuge, and a massacre that served every side's narrative, the gate left open at noon on the lower Alabama River where the war for the Deep South began. Fort Mims is the archive's open-gate file — the 1813 stockade massacre where Red Sticks killed 250 and started the war Jackson ended at Horseshoe Bend, 'Remember Fort Mims' as the nation's cry. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Fort Mims is the archive's Creek War file — the August 30, 1813 attack that killed most of the four hundred inside Mims's stockade, outraged the nation, and triggered the campaign that broke the Creek Nation. A fort that was a plantation keeps its gate — the file's suggestion being that Mims's hold is the noon opening: the gate the Red Sticks rushed, Bailey's four-hour stand, and the massacre that made 'Remember Fort Mims' a war. HISTORY — 2 documented facts · The commission identifies the site with the 1813 battle preceding the Creek War. Fort Mims' service record is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the garrison lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Fort Mims'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. · [1813-08-30] On August 30, 1813, Red Stick warriors overran Fort Mims, killing an estimated 250–500 people. The record dates it to 1813-08-30. Ground with a documented war record gives the file real substance; this entry is part of it. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Old Cahawba Archaeological Park'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 2 cited · Fort Mims — Alabama Historical Commission https://ahc.alabama.gov/properties/ftmims/ftmims.aspx · Old Cahawba Archaeological Park — Alabama Historical Commission https://ahc.alabama.gov — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/