Fort Motte
Fort Motte was a plantation and military site in the US state of South Carolina. It was developed first as Mt. Joseph Plantation; it was commandeered in 1780 by the British Army and fortified as a temporary military outpost in what is now South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: archaeological site in South Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Mount Joseph”
Fort Motte
- Categories: military installation, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Calhoun, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.73904° or 33° 44′ 21″ north
Longitude
-80.69259° or 80° 41′ 33″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Open location code
865XP8Q4+JX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Fort Motte” goes by many names.
- French: “Fort Motte”
- Russian: “Форт Мотт”
- “Fort Motte”
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