Lower Creeks

TOWNS of the LOWER CREEKS
List from Albert James Pickett's "History of Alabama"
as enemerated by Col. Benjamin Hawkins in 1798

to the Towns of the Upper Creeks

Chat-to-ho-che-- chat-to, a stone, ho-che, marked or flowered. Such rocks are found in the bed of that river above Ho-ith-le-te-gau. This is the origin and meaning of the name of that beautiful river.

Cow-e-tough, on the right bank of the Chat-to-ho-che, three miles below the falls

O-cow-ocuh-hat-che, falls creek, on the right side of the river at the termination of the falls

Hatche-canane, crooked creek

Woc-coo-che, calf creek

O-san-nup-pau, moss creek

Hat-che-thlucco, big creek

Cow-etuh Tal-hau-has-se -- Cowetuh Tal-lo-fau, a town, hasse, old -- three miles below Cowetuh, on the right bank of the Chattahoochie

We-tum-cau -- we-wau, water, tum-cau, rumbling -- a main branch of the Uchee creek

Cus-se-tuh, five miles below Cow-e-tuh, on the left bank of the Chattahoochie

Au-pau-tau-e, a village of Cussetuh, on Hat-che-thluc-co, twnety miles from the river

U-chee, on the right bank of the Chat-to-ho-che, tem miles below Cowetuh Talluhassee, and just below the mouth of the Uchee creek

In-tuch-cul-gau -- in-tuch-ke, dam across water -- ul-gau, all; a Uchee village, on Opil-thlocco, twenty-eight miles from its junction with the Flint river

Pad-gee-li-gau -- pad-jee, a pigeon --li-gau, sit, pigeon roost -- on the right bank of Flint river (a Uchee village)

Toc-co-qul-egau, tadpole, on Kit-cho-foone creek (a Uchee village)

Oose-co-chee, two miles below Uchee, on the right bank of the Chattahoochie

Che-au-hau, below, and adjoining the latter

Au-muc-cul-le, pour upon me, on a creek of that name, which joins on the right side of the Flint

Hit-che-tee, on the left bank of the Chattahoochie, one mile below Che-au-hau

Che-au-hoo-chee, Little Cheauhaw, one mile and a half west from Hit-che-tee

Hit-che-too-che, Little Hitchetee, on both sides of the Flint

Tul-tal-lo-see, fowl, on a creek of that name

Pala-chooc-le, on the right bank of the Chattahoochie

O-co-nee, six miles below the latter, on the left bank of the Chattahoochie

Sou-woo-ge-lo, six miles below Oconee, on the right bank

Sou-woog-e-loo-che, four miles below Oconee, on the left bank of the Chattahoochie

Eu-fau-la, fifteen miles below the latter, on the left bank of the same river

From this town of settlements, extended occasionally to the mouth of the Flint


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