5 April 2006. The destination for the day was the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. My first stop was at the Robert Alston Russell bridge over what used to be Elkahatchee Creek. It’s now a branch of the Lake Martin reservoir.
The Creek town of Elkahatchee was near here — maybe somewhere underwater now. This was perhaps a branch town of the more well-known Oakfuskee, which was destroyed by Andrew Jackson’s troops in July 1814, after his victory at Horseshoe Bend.
Information source: Historic Indian Towns in Alabama, 1540-1838, by Amos J. Wright Jr. (2003)
I’m not on a bicycle tour this weekend, after all. The weather forecast seemed to be turning against me, so I stayed home and hung some drywall and worked in the garden instead. I wasn’t sure I was up to two days of fighting the wind just yet, though now it seems the wind forecast for tomorrow has moderated somewhat, from a northward-traveling point of view. Well, maybe next weekend.
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