While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Cayomulgi. An ancient Upper
Creek
town on a stream which joins Coosa r. at Coussa (Kusa) town, Ala. Possibly for
Okmulgee, an ancient Creek town in E. Georgia.
Chalahume. A Creek town of the 16th century, 3 days
journey westward from Chiaha, about the present Columbus, Ga., and 2 leagues
from Satapo, probably within the present limits of Alabama (Vandera, 1567, in
Smith, Col. Doc. Fla., i, 18, 1857). The termination hume may be
the Choctaw huma, red. (A. S. G.)
Chattahoochee (Creek: chátu
rock, hut-chas mark, design: pictured rocks ). A former Lower Creek town on the
upper waters of Chattahoochee r., to which it gave its name; seemingly in the
present Harris co., Ga. So called from some pictured rocks found at that point.
The town was above Huthlitaiga, or Warford, and it had probably been abandoned
prior to Hawkins time (1798-99), as he alludes to it as the "old town
Chattohoche," not as an occupied village. (A. S. G.)
Chiaha (Chehaw). A common Creek town name. The earliest
on record, Chiaha, visited by the De Soto expedition in 1540, has been
identified as on the lower Chattahoochee, in the immediate vicinity of the later
important town known commonly as Chehaw, about the year 1800, near the present
Columbus, Ga. A third town of the name was lower down, on Flint r., and was
considered a Seminole settlement. Still another of the name, belonging to the
Upper Creeks, may have been on Upper Coosa r. in N. Georgia. (J. M.)
Chicherohe. A former Cherokee settlement on War Woman
cr., in N. w. Rabun co., Ga. ; destroyed in the Revolutionary war. (J. M. )
Chickasawhay. A former Choctaw town which stood,
according to tradition, on the E. side of Chickasawhay r. about 3 m. below the
present town of Enterprise, Clarke cp., Ga. It also gave its name to a
subdivision between Chickasawhay and Buckatunna rs. Halbert in Rep. Ala.
Hist. Soc., Misc. Coll., i, 379, 1901.
Chihlakonini (chi‘láko-nini,
horse-trail) . A former Lower Creek town on the upper waters of Chattahoochee
r., seemingly in the present Harris Co., Ga. It was burned by the whites in
Sept., 1793, at which date it consisted of 10 houses, but by 1799 the people had
formed a new town on the left bank of Tallapoosa r., opposite Oakfuskee, Ala.
The upper trail or war path crossed the latter stream by a horse ford at this
place, about 60 m. above Kasihta town. It was probably identical with
Okfuskinini. (A. S. G.)
Chisi. A town in 1540 on a small river, between Toalli
and Altamaca, in E. Georgia. The name seems to be intended for chisi, but not
the town of that name on Chattahoochee r. It was entered by De Soto's army in
Mar., 1540.
Choconikla. A Seminole town, of about 60 warriors in
1820, on the w. side of Apalachicola r., contiguous to Ataphulga, on Little r.,
Decatur co., Ga. (A. S. G.)
Cofa. A "province" or tribe, probably of Muskhogean
stock, visited by the De Soto expedition in 1540; situated in N. Georgia and
bordering on the Cherokee. Garcilasso de la Vega, Florida, 112, 1723.
Cofaqui. A (Muskhogean?) settlement in E. Georgia, through
which De Soto passed in Apr. , 1540.
Cofitachiqui. A town and province of the Yuchi(?),
situated on Savannah r.; visited by De Soto in 1540. According to Pickett (Inv.
of Ala.., 41, 1849) there was a tradition among the Indians about 1735 that
the town stood on the E. bank at Silver Bluff, Barnwell co., S. C., and this
view is taken by Jones (De Soto in Ga., 1880). On the other hand, the
name of Vandera's Canos (Smith, Col. Doc. Fla., i, 16, 1857), identified
with this place, is preserved in Cannouchee, a N. w. affluent of Ogechee r.,
Ga., while another place called Cannouchee is in Emanuel co., Ga. The province
was governed at the time of De Soto's visit by a woman who was at war with the
people of Ocute and Cofaqui. She gave the Spaniards a friendly reception and
entertained them for several days. This friendship was ill requited by the
Spanish leader, who carried her away with him a prisoner, but she managed to
escape in the mountainous region of N. E. Georgia, returning to her village with
a Negro slave who had deserted the army. Her dominion extended along the river
to about the present Habersham co., Ga., and westward probably across a third or
more of the state. (C. T.)
Cotohautustennuggee. A former Lower Creek town on the
right bank of Upatoie cr., in Muscogee co., Ga. Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E.,
pi. cxxii, 1900.
Crayfish Town (probably translated from Cherokee Tsistûnâ′yĭ,
crawfish place). A former Cherokee settlement in upper Georgia about 1800. (J.
M.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
