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Welcome to the Fort Gaines Home page. The Fort Gaines Home page provides as much information as possible on Fort Gaines. Knowing Fort Gaines’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fort Gaines’s Home page, you will also find Fort Gaines’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Fort Gaines has a population of 832. 40.5% of Fort Gaines’s inhabitants are Male, and 59.5 are female. 25.3% of Fort Gaines is married and 37.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $52,935, and the average rent is $325. Household median income in Fort Gaines is $19,750, and the individual median income is $15,000. Fort Gaines’s Ethnic is the following: Black(81.6%), White(13.3%), Asian(3.7%), Other(1.3%).


The present town of Fort Gaines was founded in 1816 as protection against the indigenous Creeks and prospered due to riverboat trade. Though it was named for General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, he did not arrive there with the 4th Infantry of the United States Army until 1816. A fort of the same name had been built in 1814 nearby on the Chattachoochee River.


In 1854, Fort Gaines was designated seat of the newly formed Clay County.According to The Floridian newspaper of 1840, in Fort Gaines were the Chattahoochee Female College and the Independent College for Young Men, boarding schools (not colleges, as that word is traditionally used today). "The writer esteems that the society and location of Fort Gaines for literary purposes, so far as the education of youths is concerned, equal to that of Sparta [Georgia]."


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