Fort Prudhomme

After de La Salle became ill during his expedition's return up the Mississippi in 1682, he was required to spend forty days at the fort until he had recuperated.

[2] On top of the Mississippi River bluffs in Tennessee, La Salle's party constructed a stockade fortification.

Ten days after his disappearance, the missing member of the expedition found his way back to the camp, unharmed but starving.

[4][5] The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture suggests that Fort Prudhomme was built on the second Chickasaw Bluff, south of the Hatchie River, near modern-day Randolph in Tipton County.

[3][7] Other sources assume that "La Salle built Fort Prudhomme, possibly on the site of present-day Memphis", on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff below the mouth of the Wolf River, in what would later become Shelby County.