page_title: Fort Toulouse
section_title: Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site
hierarchical_section_title: Fort Toulouse / Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photograph of the William Bartram Arboretum in Ft. Toulouse-Jackson Park near Wetumpka, Alabama.
context_page_description: Fort Toulouse, also called Fort des Alibamons and Fort Toulouse des Alibamons, is a historic fort near the city of Wetumpka, Alabama, United States, that is now maintained by the Alabama Historical Commission. The French founded the fort in 1717, naming it for Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse. In order to counter the growing influence of the British colonies of Georgia and Carolina, the government of French Louisiana erected a fort on the eastern border of the Louisiana Colony in what is now the state of Alabama.
context_section_description: The site was declared a National Historic Landmark by the Department of Interior in 1960. During the American Bicentennial, local groups supported reconstruction of Fort Toulouse. But the replica was incorrectly built upon the outline of the much larger Fort Jackson rather than the historic French fort.
  In the 1980s the park was acquired by the Alabama Historical Commission.  It dismantled the incorrect replica and constructed a replica of Fort Toulouse near its original site. This will allow for a future reconstruction of Ft. Jackson on its site (occupied successively by the two forts).  Archeological excavations have been continuing at the site, supervised by Dr. Craig Sheldon of Auburn University at Montgomery.
  The Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site has living history programs to portray and interpret the lives of the Creek inhabitants, the French colonists and the U.S. military troops associated with the War of 1812. The fort is located southwest of Wetumpka, off of U.S. Highway 231.
  The site also features the Taskigi Mound or "Mound at Fort Toulouse – Fort Jackson Park" (1EE1) a prehistoric South Appalachian Mississippian culture palisaded village with a central plaza area, and a rectangular platform mound. The mound is one of the locations included on the University of Alabama Museums "Alabama Indigenous Mound Trail".
caption: The William Bartram Arboretum is located inside Fort Toulouse-Jackson State Historic Site.
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