EUFAULA INDIANS IN ALABAMA

EUFAULA IS A CITY IN BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA. FROM 1540 TO 1700 THE EUFAULA INDIANS LIVED IN BARBOUR COUNTY. IN 1733 THE SITE ALONG THE CHATTAHOOCHE IS NOW MODERN DAY EUFAULA AND IT WAS OCCUPIED BY THREE CREEK TRIBES AND MUSKOGEANS. THE MOST DOMINANT OF THE THREE TRIBES WAS THE EUFAULA (A SUBTRIBE OF THE CREEKS). THE FAMILIES WERE LOOKING FOR FERTILE LAND. THEY ESTABLISHED A SETTLEMENT ON HIGH BLUFFS AND ADOPTED A CREEK VILLAGE NAME. EUFAULA WAS RENAMED IRWINTON. WHITE SETTLERS SWARMED IN DUE TO THE TREATY OF CUSSETTA IN 1832. THE CREEKS WERE FORCED TO ABANDON THEIR LAND RIGHTS IN THE AREA AND MOVE TO THE MUSCOGEE NATIONAL PARK. IN UPPER FLORIDA, LEAVING THEIR NATIVE LAND FOREVER.

THEN IN 1834 ARMY CAPTAIN RENAMED THE OLDEST PART OF THE CITY EUFAULA. THE TOWN BECAME A MAJOR SHIPPING AND TRADING POINT. THE ANGLOS BUILT A FORT AND ARMED IT WITH CALVARY AND INFANTRY. THE ENTIRE MILITIA OF THE COUNTY WAS PLACED ON WAR FOOTING. THEY HAD HEARD OF IN EARLY SPRING IN 1836 THAT THE INDIANS WERE ADVANCING. THEIR BELLS WERE RUNG AND DRUM BEATS WERE ASSEMBLED TO COMPLETE THIS FORT. BY NIGHTFALL THEY WERE ALL READY FOR AN ATTACK. HOWEVER THE INDIANS NEVER CAME AND THE PLACE WAS NEVER ATTACKED.

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