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!
H Tennessee 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.
Halfway Town. A former Cherokee settlement on Little
Tennessee r., about halfway between Sitiku and Chilhowee, about the boundary of
the present Monroe and London cos., E. Term. Timber-lake, Mem., map, 1765.
Hiwassee (Ayuhwa′sĭ,
'savanna', 'meadow'). The name of several former Cherokee settlements. The most
important, commonly distinguished by the Cherokee as Ayuhwa′sĭ Egwâ′hĭ,
or Great Hiwassee, was on the N. bank of Hiwassee r., at the present Savannah
ford, above Columbus, Polk co., Tenn. Another was farther up the same river, at
the junction of Peachtree cr., above Murphy, Cherokee co., N. C. Mooney in
19th Rep. B. A. E., 512, 1900.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
