Fort Nogales

Fort Nogales is best known for a diplomatic gathering. Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, the Spanish governor at Natchez, built a post at the mouth of the Yazoo in 1791 to keep a South Carolina land company from settling Walnut Hills. In October 1793 he welcomed some two thousand Chickasaw, Choctaw, Tallapoosa and Alabama people, who signed the Treaty of Nogales, an alliance meant to hold the Four Nations together under Spanish protection. Spain's 1795 treaty with the United States undid it, and Spanish troops left Nogales and other northern posts in 1797 and 1798.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• USS Cairo Gunboat and Museum — 0.4 mi
  The raised hull of a Union river ironclad sunk by a mine in the Yazoo in 1862, displayed at Vicksburg National Military Park with the artifacts the river mud preserved.
• Old Court House Museum — 1.4 mi
  Vicksburg's Greek Revival courthouse of 1860, raised on a hilltop with the labor of enslaved artisans and now a private local-history museum heavy on Confederate relics.
• Vicksburg National Military Park — 2.2 mi
  A 16-mile tour road through the trenches of the 47-day siege of 1863, with a national cemetery and the story of the thousands of enslaved people who reached freedom behind Union lines.

More markers nearby

• Waltersville — 0.6 mi
• Burial Site of Lynching Victims — 0.8 mi
• Soldiers Rest C.S.A. Cemetery — 0.9 mi
• Dr. Lemuel James Bowie — 1.0 mi