HORSESHOE BEND NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

HORSESHOE BEND NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

HORSESHOE BEND NATIONAL MILITARY PARK

📅05 November 2018, 20:48

Complete information about visiting Horseshoe Bend National Military Park is now available on National Park Planner.

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Daviston, Alabama, preserves a March 27, 1814, Creek Indian War battlefield on which American forces under the command of General Andrew Jackson met in battle with one thousand Red Stick Creek Indians. The Red Stick Creeks were a faction of Creeks who were against peace with the Americans, as opposed to the Lower Creek Indians who wanted peaceful relations. During the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the Lower Creeks, along with the Cherokee, fought with the American army. Numbering two thousand strong, the Americans and their Indian allies easily overwhelmed the Red Sticks, killing nearly 800 and taking the rest prisoners. This victory effectively ended the Creek Indian War. It was this battle and the defeat of the Creeks that helped Andrew Jackson to become President of the United States in 1829. During his first term, Jackson was a driving force behind the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the legislation designed to remove all Indians—including his former Indian allies who helped him to become president—from the southeastern United States.

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park features a Visitor Center with a small museum that focuses on the Creek Indians and the battle that ended the Creek Indian War, an automobile tour of the battlefield that stops at five key positions, and a 2.6-mile Nature Trail. Two picnic areas and a boat ramp are also within the park. Shore fishing is allowed from the boat ramp.

PARK AT A GLANCE

PARK MAP

VISITOR CENTER

BATTLEFIELD TOUR

NATURE TRAIL

BOATING AND PADDLING

FISHING

PICNIC AREAS

SPECIAL EVENTS

BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND

DIRECTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION


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Last updated on April 23, 2019
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