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!
Chickamauga (Tsǐkăma'gi,
a word apparently of foreign origin and probably
Shawnee,
Creek, or
Chickasaw). The name given to
a band of Cherokee who espoused the English cause in the war of the
Revolution and moved far down on Tennessee River, establishing new
settlements on Chickamauga Creek, in the neighborhood of the present
Chattanooga.
Under this name they soon became noted for their
uncompromising and never ceasing hostility. In 1782 their towns were
destroyed by Sevier and Campbell, and they moved farther down the river,
establishing what were afterward known as the "five lower towns," Running
Water, Nickajack, Long Island, Crow Town, and Lookout Mountain Town. Here
they were continually recruited by Creeks, Shawnee, and white Tories,
until they were estimated to number a thousand warriors. They continued
hostilities against the Tennessee settlements until 1794, when their towns
were destroyed.
