Spain established a wattle and daub blockhouse here on the Chattahoochee River in 1690 in an attempt to maintain influence among the people of the Apalachicola Province.

[2] The Apalachicola Fort Site is located in a rural setting in eastern Russell County, Alabama, on a bluff overlooking the Chattahoochee River a few miles from the Holy Trinity monastery.

The site was chosen by the Spanish governor of La Florida, Don Diego De Quiroga y Losada, for its proximity to Apalachicola, the principal town of the Lower Creeks.

This fort was built in an attempt to extend Spanish influence into the northernmost reaches of its claimed territory.

The effect of the constructing the fort was that the local Creeks, instead of staying with the Spanish, migrated to English-controlled areas.