 This fort disappeared by the 1840s, after the end of the Indian Wars in Alabama and Indian Removal in the 1830s, when most members of the Five Civilized Tribes were forcibly taken to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.Those members of the tribe who stayed in the southeast were considered to have given up their tribal memberships and became state and U.S. citizens.The first permanent white settlers consisted of nine families who moved into the area during the early 1830s to harvest the abundant timber.