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!
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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.
Ecochee. A former Cherokee settlement on a head stream
of Savannah r., in N. w. South Carolina or N. E. Georgia. It was destroyed
during the Revolutionary war. (J. M.)
Edisto. A small tribe, now extinct, which appears to
have occupied lower Edisto r., S. C., which derived its name from that of the
tribe. The Huguenots of Ribault's colony were kindly welcomed by them in 1562,
and the Spaniards for a time had a mission among-them. They were included in the
Cusabo group, and are mentioned in connection with the Stono, Westo, and
Savannah as still living in the region named in 1670, when English colonization
began. With the Westo and Stono they were possibly driven out by the Shawnee in
1680. Gatschet thinks it probable that they spoke the Uchean language. See
Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, Bull. B. A. E., 1894.
Ellijay (from Elǎtsé,
abbr. of Elǎtséyiĭ,
possibly green [verdant] 'earth'). The name of several former Cherokee
settlements. One was on the headwaters of Keowee r., S.C.; another was on
Ellijay cr. of Little Tennessee r., near the present Franklin, Macon co., N. C.;
another about the present Ellijay in Gilmer co., Ga., and a fourth on Ellejoy
cr. of Little r., near the present Maryville, in Blount co., Tenn. Mooney in
19th Rep. B. A. E., 517, 1900.
Enfrenado (Span.: 'bridled ). An Indian village about
40 leagues from C. Santa Helena, in s. South Carolina, visited by Juan Pardo in
1565Vandera (1567) in Smith, Colec. Doc. Fla., i, 16, 1857.
Estatoee. Two former Cherokee settlements, one on
Tugaloo r. below the junction of Chattooga and Tallulah rs., in Oconee co., S.
C., the other in the n. w. part of Pickens co. The former was generally known as
Old Estatoee.
Etiwaw (Catawba: 'pine tree'). A small tribe, now
extinct, forming part of the Cusabo group and living about Ashley and Cooper
rs., Berkeley co., S. C., extending E. to the present Monk s Corner, where their
hunting grounds bordered the Sewee country. The Santee and Conga were above
them. They were never prominent historically, and in Jan., 1715, had a single
village with 240 inhabitants (Rivers, Early Hist, S. C., 94, 1874).
Nothing is heard of them after the Yamasi war in 1715, until 1751, when they are
mentioned as one of the small tribes for which the South Carolina government
made peace with the Iroquois. From this time they seem to have be come lost to
history. Their name is preserved in Eutaw Springs, and in Pine Tree, another
name for Camden, S. C. Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East, Bull. B. A. E.,
1894.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
