Fort Pillow
Built 1971. Added to the National Register in 1973, and a National Historic Landmark.
The record
| Property type | Site |
| Address | TN 87, Fort Pillow, TN |
| County | Lauderdale County |
| Listed | Apr 11, 1973 |
| Listed for | Military, European heritage, Politics and government |
| Level of significance | National |
| Reference number | 73001806 |
| Built | 1971 · more from the 1970s |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
Visiting
| Address | TN 87, Fort Pillow, TN |
| Coordinates | 35.6361° N, 89.8422° W · Directions ↗ |
Explore
Map
Nearby in Lauderdale County
Public land around it
| Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge ↗National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | About 1 mile away14,186 acres |
Wilderness Atlas publishes a centroid and an acreage for each unit, not a boundary line. Distance here is measured to a circle of the same area drawn around that centroid, so treat it as roughly right rather than surveyed.
Local history books for Lauderdale County
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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Tennessee
Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.
Reference
Questions people ask
When was Fort Pillow listed on the National Register?
Apr 11, 1973. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.
Source: National Park Service
When was Fort Pillow built?
1971.
Source: Wikidata
Where is Fort Pillow?
TN 87, Fort Pillow, Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
Source: National Park Service
Sources
Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. The map point comes from Wikidata. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 73001806. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.