Where was Fort Rutledge exactly?

Clemson University researchers have been awarded funds from the National Park Service to continue an archaeological  and historical examination of Fort Rutledge on the university campus.  The South Carolina militia constructed the fort in 1776 following engagement with Loyalist forces and their Cherokee allies.  Faculty members David Markus and Joshua Catalano have worked together to uncover the history since 2018, and they broke ground in 2020.  The monument there still existing is a roughly eight-foot-high, five-sided stone marker built in 1908 by Trustees of the Clemson Agriculture College, at the request of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  The location was chosen after a crew of African-American convict laborers contracted to the college excavated what was described as the ruins of a corner of the fort that was still visible at the time.  The researchers believe the fort was the staging ground for the South Carolina militia’s successful efforts to starve and demoralize the Cherokee people after the Battle of Esseneca.  That small engagement takes its name from the Cherokee town now submerged under the waters of Lake Hartwell.