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!
C- South
Carolina Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Canuga The name of two former
Cherokee towns,
one, a Lower Cherokee settlement, apparently on the waters of Keowee r., S. C.,
destroyed in 1761; the other a traditional settlement on Pigeon r., probably
near the present Waynesville, Hay wood co., N. C. Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A.
E., 479, 524, 1900.
Cheesoheha. A former Cherokee settlement on a branch of
Savannah r. , in upper South Carolina; destroyed during the Revolutionary war.
(J. M.)
Chicora. The name given by the Spaniards at the time of
Ayllon's visit in 1521 to the coast region of South Carolina, s. of Edisto r. ,
and to the Indians inhabiting it. The name Cusabo, subsequently applied,
included most of the tribes of the same region. Gatschet suggests that the name
Chicora is derived from the Catawba Yuchi-kĕré,
'Yuchi are there, or over there', but the connection is not very obvious. The
French form of about the same period, Chigoula, has more the appearance of a
Muskhogean word. Fontaneda, about 1570, makes Chicora and Orista (Edisto)
equivalent. The tribes of this region were practically exterminated by Spanish
and English slave hunters before the close of the 17th century.
Chunacansti. Mentioned by Alcedo (Die. Geog., i,
565, 1786) as a pueblo of the province of South Carolina, on a swift river
of the same name which flows s. E. to the sea. Unidentified.
Churchcates. A small unidentified tribe mentioned by
Gov. Archdale, of South Carolina, in the latter part of the 18th century, in a
complaint that the Appalachicoloes, or English Indians, had attacked and killed
3 of them. Carroll, Hist. Coll. S. C., 11, 107, 1836.
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.)
Cohoth. A province of the s. coast of South Carolina,
mentioned by Ayllon in 1520. Barcia, Ensayo, 5, 1723.
Combahee. A small tribe formerly living on Combahee r.
, S. C. Little is known of its history, as it early became extinct. See Rivers,
Hist. S. C., 94, 1874.
Conoross (corruption of Kăwân′urâ′-sûñyĭ,
or Kăwân′tsurâ′-sûñyĭ,
'where the duck fell off'). The supposed name of a Cherokee settlement on
Conoross cr., which enters Keowee or Seneca r. from the w., in Anderson co., S.
C. Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 412, 1900.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
