• Colbert's Ferry was an important Red River crossing between Texas and Indian Territory from about 1853 to 1899. Both the Texas Road and the Butterfield...
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    George Colbert's Stand and Colbert's Ferry across the Tennessee River, Ala. 1806; present-day Florence Buzzard Roost Stand, Ala. 1812 See:Levi Colbert Levi...
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  • Washington, United States Colbert's Ferry, a historic Red River crossing on the National Register of Historic Places, United States Colbert Mountains, located...
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  • at Colbert's Ferry, a few miles east of Preston. The stage line had decided to bypass Preston as the traditional crossing on the Red River. Colbert's Ferry...
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    Blue's Detachment of Chickasaw Indians. By the early 1800s, Colbert established Colbert's ferry near Cherokee, Alabama. It was a significant crossing of...
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  • William Colbert (brother of Levi Colbert and George Colbert) to establish a trading standing and ferry at what came to be known as Colbert's Ferry across...
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    Cherokee, Alabama (category Towns in Colbert County, Alabama)
    Natchez Trace near Cherokee includes the Colbert Ferry site, the home of George Colbert and of Levi Colbert. The Colbert family were leaders of the Chickasaw...
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    Roost Park, Margerum Colbert County Park, Pride and Margerum Highland Park, Tuscumbia John W. Gattman Park, Muscle Shoals Colbert Ferry Park, Cherokee North...
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    Chadbourne 458 126.3 Division 6 Fort Chadbourne to Colbert's Ferry 282+1⁄2 65.3 Division 7 Colbert's Ferry to Fort Smith 192 38 Division 8 Fort Smith to Tipton...
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    consists of 10 Townships: Albany, Bennington, Bokchito, Brown, Caddo, Calera, Colbert, Kemp, Matoy, and Speairs. The area now known as Bryan County was occupied...
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  • by Congress March 3, 1857. The route crossed Indian Territory from Colbert's Ferry to Fort Smith, Arkansas which was the Center for the Overland Mail's'...
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    United States, Chickasaw Village and Bynum Mounds in Mississippi, and Colbert's Ferry and Metal Ford in Tennessee. Like the Blue Ridge Parkway, two other...
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    After the wars, Coldwater Town became the site of Colbert's Ferry, owned by Chickasaw leader George Colbert, the crossing place of the Natchez Trace over...
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    towards the French. Plunket killed Colbert with a single long-range rifle shot, then killed an officer who came to Colbert's assistance with a second shot...
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    one aspect of this, along with the 1816 and 1817 cessions involving "Colbert's ferry" both of which opened up the most desirable lands along the Tennessee...
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    Springs, the first "cow town," in Kansas, to the Red River crossing at Colbert's Ferry, Indian Territory, along the Texas border. This would improve transportation...
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    James Robertson's Cumberland militia in 1787; then became site of Colbert's Ferry, the Tennessee River crossing-place of the Natchez Trace trail. Coosada...
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    Whitesboro), fifteen miles to Sherman and across the Red River at Colbert's Ferry, eight miles below Preston, Texas to Indian Territory. Cottonwoods...
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    along its 192-mile route across Indian Territory from Fort Smith to Colbert's Ferry on Red River. Unlike some of the other stands, however, it played a...
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    the Red River near Preston Bend at Coffee's Trading Post and later Colbert's Ferry. Fort Washita became a major junction on this road. Later the Shawnee...
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    Natchez Trace Parkway (category Protected areas of Colbert County, Alabama)
    Trace Parkway Visitor Center 269.4 Old Trace 286.7 Pharr Mounds 327.3 Colbert Ferry, also site #12 on the North Alabama Birding Trail 330.2 Rock Spring...
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  • wars of the 1810s) and William Colbert of the Chickasaw Nation, agreeing to establish and jointly operate a stand and ferry across the Duck River along the...
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  • a partnership with Chickasaw Chief William "Chooshemataha" Colbert, Gordon provided ferry service and ran a trading post along the trace. The Chickasaw...
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  • Butterfield Overland Mail in Indian Territory Next station West Colbert's Ferry 13 miles Fisher's Station 14 miles Next station East Nail's Station...
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    Ferry Farm, also known as the George Washington Boyhood Home Site or the Ferry Farm Site, is the farm and home where George Washington spent much of his...
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  • Trace Parkway Colbert Ferry 34°50′24″N 87°56′43″W / 34.8400°N 87.9452°W / 34.8400; -87.9452 (12. Natchez Trace Parkway Colbert Ferry) 13 Freedom Hills...
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    454444 (Carriage Point) Durant 6 Colbert's Ferry Site Upload image June 29, 1972 (#72001057) 3 miles southeast of Colbert 33°49′13″N 96°31′20″W / 33.820278°N...
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    Shepard Fairey (redirect from Sheperd Ferry)
    2010, Stephen Colbert debuted a poster on The Colbert Report that was designed in collaboration with Fairey. The poster, created for Colbert's coverage of...
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  • aboard the ferry USS Commodore Hull during the Capture of Plymouth on 31 October 1864. He was honored with the award on 31 December 1864. Colbert was born...
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    Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated...
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