Editing Fort Gaines, Georgia (section)

==History==
The present town of Fort Gaines was founded in 1816 as protection against the indigenous [[Muscogee|Creeks]] and prospered due to riverboat trade.<ref name="GAE">{{cite web|title=Fort Gaines|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/fort-gaines |last1=Morgan |first1=Linda|publisher=Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=July 2, 2016}}</ref> Though it was named for [[Edmund P. Gaines|General Edmund Pendleton Gaines]], he did not arrive there with the 4th Infantry of the United States Army until 1816.<ref name="GAE"/><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n128 129]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REtEXQNWq6MC&pg=PA230 | title=Historical Gazetteer of the United States | publisher=Routledge | date=May 13, 2013 | access-date=30 November 2013 | author=Hellmann, Paul T. | pages=230| isbn=978-1135948597 }}</ref>

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|Sparta]] [Georgia]."<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28413769/these_colleges_are_not/
|newspaper=The Floridian (Tallahassee, Florida)
|first=Sereno
|last=Taylor
|date=January 18, 1840
|title=The Chattahoochee FemslE College and Independent School for Young Men [illegible]}}</ref>