TUGALOO TOWN Tugaloo, the location of the sacred fire for the Lower Towns, was one of the oldest Cherokee towns. When the village was destroyed August 1776 by the American commander Andrew Williamson, the fire keeper took part of the sacred fire with him as the people escaped to join Dragging Canoe and his band of Cherokees in Alabama and Tennessee. It is said that the fire still burns deep down in the mound. The top of the mound is all that can be seen of the great Cherokee town of Tugaloo after the river was flooded to make the Hartwell Lake. Tugaloo was a Cherokee town on the Tugaloo River. The Tugaloo River is a short river bordering Georgia and South Carolina at the mouth of Toccoa Creek, near present-day Toccoa, Georgia The terms correspond in general with the Eastern Dialect of Cherokee, which was originally spoken by what the English called the Lower Cherokee in the region of the Lower Towns. Today the Tugaloo River is impounded by Hartwell Dam. The dams reservoir, Lake Hartwell, floods the Tugaloo River a few miles upriver of the old site of Tugaloo town. Located approximately 6 miles east of Toccoa on U.S. Highway 123 near Hartwell Lake. Standing at the Marker and looking north up the lake the old Tugaloo Indian Mound can be seen sticking out of the waters of the Hartwell Lake.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:32:08 +0000
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