Gunnison Valley News | 1925-08-06 | Page 3 | Roadway will Run to Old French Fort Toulouse

Roadway Will Run to Old French Fort Toulouse Plans are under way for the building build-ing of a highway to the old French Fort Toulouse, which was an Indian town nearly 400 years ago. Fort Toulouse Is In Elmore county, near Montgomery, Ala., a short distance dis-tance from one of the principal highways high-ways leading into the city, and It Is the Intention of historical experts to make this point available to tourists. The plan was launched by Peter A. Brannon, curator of the Alabama Department De-partment of Archives and History. It j was only recently that a marker was placed at old Pole Cat Springs. 30 miles from Montgomery, where Lafayette Lafay-ette spent the night on his way to Montgomery. Fort Toulouse Is rich In history. A granite shaft has been placed there to commemorate the old French outpost out-post of 1714, which is a miniature rej-lica rej-lica of the shaft erected to General I Montgomery on the plains of Abraham. I at Quebec. The old French cemetery ! Is ut Fort Toulouse, and here some j of Jackson's men were buried, the I place becoming known as Port .lark- ; j son. The treaty of 1 SI 4 by which the Indians ceded all their lands south j I of Fort Jackson to the United Slates was signed there. I