Located approximately thirty miles south of Fort Strother on
the Coosa River at a place known as Three Islands, Fort
Williams was built in March 1814. Named after the colonel of
the Thirty-ninth  U. S. Regiment, the fort served as the
launching point for Jackson’s march against the Red Sticks at
Horseshoe Bend.

The site of Fort Williams is now under the Coosa River. A
historic marker and cemetery containing headstones for Creek
War veterans is near the site, east of Fayetteville, Alabama, on
General Jackson Memorial Drive. The road is just off County
Road 8 in a residential development on the Coosa River near
Cedar Creek.