Words cannot express how pleased I was to read this post by Dale Cox. For over 25 years, I have been documenting the history of an Indian village called Chiskatalofa. One of my reasons for doing this work is that the history of my home county, HOUSTON COUNTY, ALABAMA has been ignored, dismissed and misrepresented. There's a historic marker between Shorterville and Ft. Gaines that reads:
"Franklin - First Beachhead into East Alabama
 Erected by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission and the Henry County Historical Society, 1978.
The frontier village of Franklin was established here by Colonel Robert Irwin in 1814 on the site of the Indian town of Cheeska Talofa. It was the first colonial village in east Alabama. Fort Gaines, Georgia, was constructed in 1816 to protect the early settlers in this former Creek Indian Nation, West. Twenty-one blocks were laid off for this promising river port of Abbeville. This prospective early city never recovered from the destructive flood of 1888." NOW OLD ROBERTOREG HAS TWO QUESTIONS!!!! NUMBER 1: How the HELL can you have a "colonial village" established on land in 1814 THAT HAD BEEN IN MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY SINCE 1798 and, before that, IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA SINCE AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION! NUMBER 2: How the HELL does somebody place "Cheeka Talofa" WAY UP NORTH IN HENRY COUNTY across from Fort Gaines when we have historic records of the EXACT LOCATION of this IMPORTANT INDIAN TOWN GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1757!!!! (like I said my home county's history is MISREPRESENTED!) http://twoegg.blogspot.com/2016/11/newly-discovered-map-shows-key-creek.html