 19th-century historian J. G. M. Ramsey provided the most often-cited description of the Fort Watauga location in his "Annals of Tennessee", published in 1852.Ramsey, who visited Elizabethton and observed what he believed were the fort's remains, placed the fort location at approximately northeast of the mouth of Gap Creek, along what is now the intersection of West G Street and Monument Place (the site is marked by the 1909 D.A.R.monument).