Construction of the fort began in the summer of 1765, and took a couple of years to complete because of structural complications as well as the constant threat of attack by the Creek Native Americans.
The "good talks" however did not work and South Carolina entered the American Revolutionary War with the English and the Cherokee opposing them.
The grievance between Crawford and Van Alen was over land schemes which eventually culminated in the Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia.
At the end of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and some of his cabinet fled through South Carolina into Georgia crossing the Savannah River at Fort Charlotte.
An archaeological survey was conducted at the site in the 1950s, but, strangely, all of the artifacts were lost, and the official report was not released until after the death of the primary archaeologist.