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!
Sissipahaw.
A former small tribe of North Carolina, presumably
Siouan, from their alliance and
associations with known Siouan tribes. They must have been an
important tribe at one time, as Haw river, the chief head stream of Cape
Fear river, derives its name from them, and the site of their former
village, known in 1728 as Haw Old Fields, was noted as the largest body of
fertile land in all that region. It was probably situated about the
present Saxapahaw on Haw river, in the lower part of Alamance county, N.
C. They were mentioned by Lawson in 1701, but he did not meet them.
Nothing more is known of them beyond the general statement that they and
other tribes of the region joined the Yamasee against the English in the
war of 1715.
