High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fort Dobbs was an 18th-century fort in the lower Yadkin Valley region of the Province of North Carolina, near modern-day Statesville in Iredell County. Used as a British provincial fort during and after the French and Indian and Anglo-Cherokee Wars, the fort was primarily built to protect the settlers of the western portion of what was then Rowan County and the Fourth Creek Settlement. Built in the blockhouse style and constructed entirely of wooden logs, it provided protection against Cherokee, Catawba, Shawnee, Delaware and French raids into North Carolina, and also served as a vital frontier outpost for settlers, traders, and colonial officials. On February 27, 1760, the fort was the site of an engagement between Cherokee warriors and provincial militia that ended in a victory for the militia.