Buchannan's Station

Months before the attack, an Overhill Cherokee delegation told Secretary of War Henry Knox in Philadelphia that settlers should leave the Cumberland, a hunting ground for several nations. Knox sent no army. On September 30, 1792, a force of mostly Creek and Cherokee warriors marched on Nashville and besieged Buchanan's Station, and the station held. Accounts put the attackers between 300 and more than 500. Two years later Southwest Territory militia answered by destroying the Chickamauga Cherokee towns of Nickajack and Running Water.

What the plaque says

Buchannan's Station One of Cumberland settlements, established here in 1780, The fort was attached Sept. 30, 1792, by about 300 Creeks and Lower Cherokees under Chiachattalla. Aided by the heroism and efficiency of Mrs. Buchanan and other women in the stockade, the attack was repulsed and Chiachattalla was killed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Negley — 3.5 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• Ryman Auditorium — 3.9 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.
• National Museum of African American Music — 3.9 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 4.1 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.

More markers nearby

• Greenwood Park — 0.6 mi
• George Woods — 0.6 mi
• Confederate Circle at Mount Olivet — 1.3 mi
• Walden College — 2.3 mi