Fort Dallas: plantation slave quarters turned into army barracks for the war on the Seminoles (Miami River, 1836 to 1857)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1836 · Places: Florida, Caribbean
SUMMARYFort Dallas: plantation slave quarters turned into army barracks for the war on the Seminoles (Miami River, 1836 to 1857) [Connections: Miami & Lake Okeechobee, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDFort Dallas was set up in 1836 on the plantation of Richard Fitzpatrick and William English as a post in the Seminole Wars, partly to stop Seminole trade with Cuban and West Indian traders, and "for the purpose of harassing the enemy." The page says the barracks served as plantation slave quarters before becoming army barracks; troops held it mostly from 1836 to 1857; Julia Tuttle later moved onto the site (1891), and the coquina barracks were moved to Lummus Park in 1924
PATTERNThe same building housed enslaved Black workers and then the soldiers sent against the Seminoles and their Black allies
LENS (WW9)Miami's oldest standing building was a slave quarter, then a war base against the Aboriginal people
OPENNames and number of the people enslaved on the Fitzpatrick/English plantation (check the 1840 and 1850 census slave schedules for Dade County); the page is inconsistent on the barracks date (1836 vs. 1844)