Battle of Fowltown
Fowltown Creek, near modern Albany, Georgia, was where "Neamathla's band of Tuttollossees had lived...before relocating down to modern Decatur and Seminole Counties."[1]: 167 (Although some of Neamathla's people at one time lived in Seminole County, Georgia,[1]: 80 Fowltown was never in that county.)
There were four different locations for Fowltown, all settled by the same
1. The oldest and largest one was on the southeastern bank of the
2. The second was in Spanish Florida, on the west bank of the Chattahoochee River, across from Tocktoethla ("River Junction"), in modern Jackson County, Florida.[2]: 24 (1814–1816)
3. The third was also on the south bank of the Flint, further up, four miles southwest of modern Bainbridge, Georgia, adjacent to Fowltown Swamp, also in Decatur County, Georgia.[1]: 99–100 (1816). This was the location of the Battle of Fowltown, a symbolically important but militarily very minor encounter.
Chief
4. The final Fowltown was also in Spanish Florida, on the eastern shore of Lake Miccosukee, in modern Jefferson County, Florida.[2]: 141
See also
- Fowltown, Georgia
References
- ^ a b c Cox, Dale (2016). Fort Scott, Fort Hughes & Camp Recovery : Three 19th Century Military Sites in Southwest Georgia. Old Kitchen Books.
- ^ ISBN 978-0692977880.
- ISBN 0813027152.
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