sequoyah, a prominent 19th-century cherokee scholar, was born at tuskegee, a village which had developed just south of the fort. stones from fort loudoun may have been used to construct the tellico blockhouse, an american outpost located across the river from the fort, in the 1790s. louis phillipe, the future king of france, visited the blockhouse while in exile in the united states in 1797, and noted that fort loudoun was mostly rubble and brush. he suggested the site of the fort had been poorly selected. after the cherokee relinquished control of the area with the signing of the calhoun treaty in 1819, ownership of the fort's ruins changed hands several times.