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.
Fightingtown (mistranslation of Walás'unûlsti'yĭ,
place of the plant walâs'unûl'sti,.
e., 'frog fights with it'). A former Cherokee settlement on Fightingtown cr.,
near Morganton, Fannin co., Ga. Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 545, 1900.
Finhalui (Fin-'hálui,
'high log'). A former Lower Creek town, probably in Georgia, with 187 heads of
families in 1832. A swamp bearing the Finholoway is in Wayne co., Ga., between
lower Altamaha and Satillars rs.
Frogtown (trans, of Walâsi′yic,
frog place). A former Cherokee settlement on a creek of the same name, N. of
Dahlonega, Lumpkin co., Ga. Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 545, 1900.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
