Existing comment:
The outline indicates the old trading stockade. As the sign says:
Trade with the British 1690-1750
The Creek Trading Path, the Trading Post Site and Civil War (1864) Trenches
Almost 100 years before the American Revolution was fought, the Creeks traded with the British at Ocmulgee. In 1690, an English trader from Charleston built a trading store adjacent to the traditional Creek trading path that went from Augusta Georgia to the lower Creek Towns along the Chattahoochee River. A stockade wall and a shallow ditch surrounded the trading store for protection from attack. The Creeks traded for European goods of guns, iron pots, knives and cotton cloth in exchange for fur and skins. The Creeks moved back to the Chattahoochee River and abandoned the village after the Yamassee War erupted in 1715 in protest against the British corruption related to fur trade practices, including the taking of Indians as slaves to work in the Caribbean sugar plantations. ...
Archeological excavations have located the sites of the trading post store, the stockade walls, and the Creek trading path. A Civil War trench was also identified that bisected both the trading post and the path, probably constructed in 1864 by conscripted slave labor when then Governor Brown called upon the citizens of Macon to protect the city from oncoming forces of Union General WT Sherman. |