Fourteen Pounds of Beads for Talasee Shoals
In 1786, a tract of Georgia Land on Mulberry River near Talasee Shoals in Jackson County was purchased from the Creek Indians. That summer, a few white people came from Effingham County to the site, then called Tishmaugu. The new settlers wished to be friendly with the Indians and, knowing the Creeks were excessively fond […]