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Big Hill Pond Fortification

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The Big Hill Pond Fortification is a Civil War earthwork in Big Hill Pond State Park, which is located in McNairy County, Tennessee.

The earthwork was built atop a ridge by the Union Army in late 1862, after the Battle of Davis Bridge. It was built to guard the nearby Memphis and Charleston Railroad line.[1][2] It is considered an archaeological site and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[3]

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  1. ↑ West, Caroll Van. "Big Hill Pond State Park". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=90. 
  2. ↑ Hardesty, Donald L.; Little, Barbara (2000). Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Historians. Altamira Press. p. 188. 
  3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named nris
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