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1874-5-A. G. Holloway; D. A. G. Ross. 1875-6-A. G. Holloway; D. A. G. Ross. 1876-7-A. G. Holloway; D. A. G. Ross. 1878-9-O. P. Dark; W. R. Dawson.
1880-1-M. J. Bulger; J. N. Slaughter. 1882-3-G. W. Vines; J. S. Jones. 1884-5-J. P. Burns; J. V. Ashurst. 1886-7-Ross Barton; D. A. G. Ross. 1888-9-O. P. Dark; J. N. Dupree.
1890-1-J. M. Amason; E. B. Langley.
1892-3-E. B. Langley; J. M. Amason. 1894-5-E. B. Langley; L. R. Meadows.
1896-7-J. A. Smith; D. R. Meadows.
I898-9-T. L. Bulger (a vacancy caused by death of B. A. Dean).
1899 (Spec.)-T. L. Bulger.
1900-01-T. L. Bulger; H. J. Gillam.
1903-John Russell Ballard; James Wil- liam Strother.
1907-Thomas L. Bulger; J. Fletcher Tur- ner.
1907 (Spec.) - Thomas L. Bulger; J. Fletcher Turner.
1909 (Spec. ) Thomas L. Bulger; J. Fletcher Turner.
1911-A. P. Fuquay; J. B. Rylance.
1915-G. A. Sorrell; W. G. Carlton.
1919-J. H. Johnson; H. L. Simpson.
REFERENCES .- Toulmin, Digest (1823), index; Acts of Ala .; Brewer, Alabama, p. 546; Berney, Handbook (1892), p. 331; Riley, Alabama as it is (1893), p. 112; Northern Alabama (1888), p. 169; Alabama, 1909 (Ala. Dept. of Ag. and Ind., Bulletin 27), p. 202; U. S. Soil Survey (1910), with map; Alabama land book (1916), p. 150; Ala. Official and Statistical Register, 1903-1915, 5 vols .; Ala. Anthropological Society, Handbook (1910) ; Geol. Survey of Ala., Agricultural jea- tures of the State (1883) ; The Valley Regions of Alabama, parts 1 and 2 (1896, 1897), and Un- derground Water resources of Alabama (1907).
TALLAPOOSA RIVER. This river unites with the Coosa (q. v.) to form the Alabama River (q. v.), and is one of the more impor- tant of the streams forming the eastern group of the Alabama-Tombigbee drainage system. Its length is about 250 miles; its width from 200 to 300 feet; its depth, from a few feet on shoals to 10 or 15 feet in pools. There are no data available concerning the river above Tallassee, 50 miles from its mouth. It rises in Western Georgia and follows a general southwesterly course through the Piedmont Plateau to Tallassee, and thence through the Coastal Plain to its confluence with the Coosa, 22 miles north of Montgomery.
Below the falls at Tallassee the river is similar to those usually found in the alluvial formations of the State. It presents long
reaches of fine open water, with a current of one-half to three-quarters of a mile per hour. Occasionally shoals, sand bars, and rock reefs occur. It runs through a continuous succes- sion of rich bottom lands, largely cultivated, and adjacent uplands of good arable soil, with the more hilly portions covered with forests of fine pine timber. The following Alabama counties are traversed by or contiguous to the river: Cleburne, Randolph, Chambers, Talla- poosa, Macon, Elmore, and Montgomery.
Originally the Tallapoosa was navigable only by small flatboats, and its commerce was negligible. There is practically no navigation of the river at present.
Government Improvements .- The United States Government made an examination of the Tallapoosa from Tallassee to its mouth in 1881. As a result, a project was adopted which provided for obtaining a navigable channel from the foot of Tallassee Reefs to the mouth, a distance of 48 miles, with a minimum depth of 3 feet and a width of 200 feet in open river, and 60 feet through the soft rock reefs. Some work was done in re- moving snags and logs from the channel, but because of the absence of commercial bene- fits, the improvement of the river was aban- doned in 1891. A total of $44,000 was spent upon the stream, but a large part of it was for a snag-boat and plant which later were transferred to the Alabama River.
Water Power .- The principal importance of the Tallapoosa has attached to its potential water power development. One of the most notable examples of water power utilization in the State is the plant at Tallassee, where power generated from the falls is used to run extensive manufacturing plants, and to supply electricity to the city of Montgomery. Be- sides these major industrial plants, there are numerous minor utilizations of water power above the Great Falls for flour mills, grist- mills, and a few sawmills.
Appropriations .- The dates, amounts, and the aggregate of appropriations by the Fed- eral Government for improvement of this stream, as compiled to March 4, 1915, in Ap- propriations for Rivers and Harbors (House Doc. 1491, 63d Cong., 3d sess., 1916), are shown in the appended table:
Aug. 2, 1882. $15,000.00
July 5, 1884. 10,000.00
Aug. 5, 1886 7,500.00
Aug. 11, 1888 7,500.00
Sept. 19, 1890
4,000.00
$44,000.00
REFERENCES .- U. S. Chief of Engineers, An- nual report, 1881, App. K, pp. 1223-1232; 1890, App. Q, pp. 1649-1651; 1891, App. P, pp. xiii-xiv, 1741-1742; 1893, App. P, pp. 1723-1724; Hall, Water powers of Alabama (U. S. Geol. Survey, Water supply paper 107, 1904), pp. 17-61, 236; Berney, Handbook (1892), pp. 514-515.
TALLASSEE. An incorporated town in the eastern part of Elmore County, sec. 19, T. 18 N. R. 22 E., on the west bank of the Talla- poosa River, on the Union Springs & North- ern Railroad ( Birmingham & Southeastern
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Railway), 30 miles northeast of Montgomery, and about 21 miles east of Wetumpka. Alti- tude: 202 feet. Population: 1870-1,200; 1880-1,800; 1910-1,314. It was incorpo- rated in 1908, under the municipal code of 1907. The First National is its only bank, and the Tallassee Times, a Democratic weekly established in 1911, its only newspaper.
Among the earliest settlers were the Thomas Barnett, B. D. Fryer, William Jordan, Micou, and James Rushing families. Thomas Barnett, in the early twenties, bought the lands bordering on the Tallapoosa River, with the right to use the falls. He erected a small cotton factory for making osnaburgs for the use of slaves, and called his settlement Tal- lassee, after an ancient Indian village whose site is nearby. The meaning of the Indian name "Tallassee" is captured town. The site of Tallassee was occupied 200 years later by the Indian village Tookabatchee, the capital of the Upper Creeks. It was the scene of councils with the Indians held both by Col. Benjamin Hawkins and Gov. William Wyatt Bibb. It was the home of the celebrated chief, Opothleyoholo, who accompanied his people to the West.
By 1870, The Tallassee Falls Manufactur- ing Co.'s plant had become the largest cot- ton mill in Alabama. It is now one of the im- portant manufactories of the State. The power plant of the Montgomery Light & Wa- ter Power Co. is situated on the Tallapoosa, 4 miles above Tallassee.
REFERENCES .- Brewer, Alabama (1872), p. 238; Polk's Alabama gazetteer, 1888-9, p. 754; Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1915.
TALLASSEE AND MONTGOMERY RAIL- WAY COMPANY. See Birmingham and Southeastern Railway Company.
TALLASSEE FALLS MANUFACTURING CO., Tallassee. See Cotton Manufacturing.
TALLASEEHATCHEE, BATTLE OF. This was the first of the battles of Gen. Andrew Jackson's army in his campaign against the Indians in the Creek Indian War of 1813-14. It was fought November 3, 1813, between the hostile Creek Indians collected in the town of Tallaseehatchee, and the forces of Gen. Jackson, under the immediate command of Gen. John Coffee. Gen. Jackson was moving his army with difficulty, owing to much needed supplies. Gen. Coffee had destroyed Black Warrior's Town; and Col. Dyer had burned the town of Littafuchee. The army now had reached Ten Islands on the Coosa River, and Gen. Jackson began planning the erection of Fort Strother. Gen. Coffee was directed to advance on Tallaseehatchee with 920 men. He was accompanied by Richard Brown and a company of Creeks and Cherokees. The town was situated near the head of the creek of that name, about three miles southwest of Jacksonville. It had about 100 families, and a fighting force of 120 warriors, had only recently been increased by 300 warriors, brought together from the towns below, mak- ing an Indian force of 420 fighting men. Gen.
Coffee surrounded the town about sunrise of November 3. The engagement was swift and bloody. Not an Indian asked to be spared. There is some discrepancy in the ac- counts of those engaged, but the Indian killed were 186 warriors who were counted, and 18 Indian women. A number were never counted. Some escaped, and fled toward Oak- fushee. Gen. Coffee's losses were five killed and 41 wounded. Eighty-four women and children, and fourteen hopelessly crippled warriors were taken prisoners. The prisoners were sent to Huntsville.
On the same day, Gen. Coffee returned to headquarters.
Of their arms and equipment in this battle, Brewer says-"A noticeable circumstance in connection with this battle is that the Indians were all armed with a bow and quiver of arrows, besides guns, which showed that they had taken to heart the advice of Tecum- seh to throw aside the arts they had learned from the whites, and return to their primitive customs."
Buell says, p. 304: "An interesting feature of this encounter was the fact that it was Coffee's first battle. In his conduct of it, however, he exhibited skill and precision worthy a veteran of many fields. Coffee was an instinctive soldier, an intuitive general. Long after when his native capacity had been developed in many hard-fought encounters, including the battle of the 23d below New Orleans, Gen. Jackson said of him: ‘John Coffee is a consummate commander. He was born so. But he is so modest that he doesn't know it.' "
On the death of Gen. Coffee in 1834, Gov. William Carroll of Tennessee said of him in a funeral eulogy: "In view of all the cir- cumstances, I had rather have been the hero of Tallaseehatchee than of the Horseshoe Bend. I had almost said New Orleans itself! It was the first battle of the Creek campaign; the first battle fought by any troops under Andrew Jackson's command. Upon its issue depended in great measure the morale of our troops, their confidence in their leaders and the buoyancy of spirit that would nerve them to endure the indescribable fatigues and privations to which they were subjected."- Buell, p. 305.
REFERENCES .- Pickett, History of Alabama (Owen's ed., 1900), p. 552; Brewer, Alabama (1872), p. 152; Parton, Life of Jackson (1861), vol. 1, pp. 436-440; Buell, History of Andrew Jackson (1904), vol. 1, pp. 302-305; Eaton, Life of Jackson (1824), pp. 53-55; (Eaton), Memoirs of Andrew Jackson (1848), pp. 48-49; Jenkins, Life of Jackson (1852), pp. 65-67; Frost, Pic- torial Life of Jackson (1847), pp. 132-137; Col- yar, Life and Times of Jackson (1904), vol. 1, pp. 127-128.
TALUAHADSHO. An Upper Creek town in Shelby County, on the east side of the Cahaba River, "far out to the northwest of the other Upper Creek towns." It was appar- ently about 10 miles south of Birmingham. There were other Creek settlements about this town, visible to Hawkins in 1799. The name
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signifies Crazy Town. It is sometimes spelled Tulawahajah.
REFERENCES .- Gatschet, in Alabama History Commission, Report (1901), vol. 1, p. 410; Bureau of American Ethnology, Eighteenth an- nual report (1899), pt. 2, map 1.
TALUALAKO. A popular name of Apa- latchukla, meaning "the great town." The old name is no longer heard at the present time.
REFERENCE .- Gatschet, in Alabama History Commission, Report (1901), vol. 1, p. 410.
TAMALI. A Lower Creek town in the southwestern part of Barbour County, situ- ated on the Chattahoochee River 7 miles above Ocheesee Bluff. The ponds and swamps in the vicinity are said by Hawkins to have abounded in alligators. It is on his authority also that it is assigned as a town of Seminole origin, but the name is the Hitchiti form of Itamalgi, meaning a Creek totem-clan. Haw- kins spells the word Tum-mult-lau. De Cre- nay's map, 1733, contains a reference to the town, which indicates its antiquity. The name Tommotley, supposed to be the same, is given to a settlement on the Tennessee River be- tween Ballplay and Toskegee Creeks, and Gat- schet is authority for the statement that it was named after immigrants from the Lower Creek town on the Chattahoochee. There is a Tomotley in Beaufort County, S. C.
REFERENCES .- Gatschet, in Alabama History Commission, Report (1901), vol. 1, p. 410; Hand- book of American Indians (1910), vol. 2, p. 681; Jeffery, Atlas of North America (1762); Hawk- ins, Sketch of the Creek Country (1848), p. 26; Morse, Report (1822), p. 364.
TAMAHITA. A Lower Creek town, which later moved over among the Upper Creeks, and united with Koassati, and formed by a people who had formerly lived in Western Virginia.
It appears on D'Anville's map of 1732, as located on the right side of lower Coosa River, just above old Coosa. Adair mentions Tameya as one of the broken tribes incorpo- rated by the Creeks in their Confederacy. In the trade regulations of 1761, the tribe, the name spelled Tomehetaws is included with the Koassati, both tribes numbering one hundred and twenty-five hunters, and are placed "close to the French Barracks."
In the sixteenth century there was a people called Tomahitaes in East Tennessee, on one of the branches of the Tennessee River. It is possible that this broken tribe Tamahita in Alabama may have been an off-shoot of this East Tennessee tribe.
REFERENCES .- The first exploration of the Allegheny Region (1650), (1674), pp. 212-214. Hamilton's Colonial Mobile (1910), p. 188. Adair, American Indians (1775), p. 255, Geor- gia, Colonial Records (1907), vol. 8, p. 524.
TARIFF TAXES. See Import Duties; In- come Tax; Internal Revenue.
TASKIGI. A small Upper Creek town in Elmore County, situated near old Fort Tou-
louse, at the confluence of the Coosa and Tal- Iapoosa Rivers. Its people were of the Ali- hamu lineage. The town occupied the high shore of the Coosa River below the fort. The rivers here approach each other within a quarter of a mile, then curve out and flow to- gether some distance below. In recent years during the floods the water broke through this isthmus, just below the mounds herein- after noted.
The first historic reference to the town is on De Lisle's map, 1707, where it is given as Les Taskegui, and is located on the left bank of the Coosa River, apparently in Talladega County. On Danvilles' map, 1732, Takiki is placed on the west side of the Coosa near its confluence with the Tallapoosa. It appears in the same locality on De Crenay's map, 1733, spelled as Tasquiki. On Belen's map, 1744, a town, Tascage, is located on the west side of the Altamaha, and Taskages on the east side of the Chattahoochee, evidently er- roneous notations, although it may represent an early shifting of the tribal seats. The French census of 1760 gives the Tastekis 50 warriors or gunmen and locates it a league and three quarters from Fort Toulouse. In the English trade regulations, July 3, 1761, Tuskegee, including its near neighbor, Coo- saw Old Town, had 40 hunters, but it does not appear that any traders were assigned to them. Some time after this date and before 1799, the date of the visit of Hawkins quoted below, the inhabitants moved their town across the river, and settled on the site below Fort Toulouse, occupying the abandoned vil- lage of the Pakanas Prison No. 4. In 1803 a great congress of the four nations, Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Choctaws was held at Tuskegee, and at that congress the freebooter Bowles was arrested.
Hawkins says that the people of the town in 1799 had "lost their language, and spoke Creek, and have adopted the customs and manners of the Creeks." At that time they had 35 gunmen, a number of cattle and per- haps more hogs than any other town of the nation. Hawkins also mentions that on the bluff, and probably within the limits of the town were "five conic mounds of earth, the largest thirty yards diameter at the base, and seventeen feet high; others are smaller." Continuing, Hawkins says:
"There are thirty buildings in the town, compactly situated, and from the bluff a fine view of the flat lands in the fork, and on the right bank of the Coosau, which river is here two hundred yards wide. In the yard of the town house, there are five cannon of iron, with the trunions broke off, and on the bluff some brickbats, the only remains of the French establishment here. There is one apple tree claimed by this town, now in pos- session of the chiefs of Book-choie-oo-che.
"The fields are the left side of Tal-la-poo-sa, and there are some small patches well formed in the fork of the rivers, on the flat rich land below the bluff."
Milfort says that in Tuskiki Alexander Mc- Gillivray owned a house and property along the Coosa River. Sam Manack, another half-
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breed, was also a resident of the town, own- ing in 1799 a fine stock of cattle, including 180 calves. Of the name Gatschet says: "The name of the town may be explained as: jumping men, jumpers," from Cr. Taskais, Taskas, "I jump" (tulupkalis); or be con- sidered an abbreviated form of Taskialgi, "warriors."
He says that it is linguistically identical with Toskegee, a Cherokee town on the southern shore of the great Tennessee River, and appearing on Timberlake's map, 1762. He further calls attention to the fact that this town name on the Tennessee River suggests another Creek emigration to northern parts like Tommotley. Swanton says that the Cherokee town of Toskegee actually consisted of a branch of the Creek tribe of the name.
REFERENCES .- Gatschet, in Alabama History Commission, Report (1910), vol. 1, p. 410; Hawkins, Sketch of the Creek Country (1848), p. 38; Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America, vol. 2, p. 294; Milfort, Memoire (1802), pp. 27, 266, 267; Hamilton, Colonial Mobile (1910), pp. 188, 190; Shea, Charlevoix's History of New France (1900), vol. 6, p. 11; Mississippi, Provincial Archives (1911), vol. 1, p. 94; Georgia, Colonial Records (1907), vol. 8, p. 524; Handbook of American Indians (1910), vol. 2, p. 853.
TAWASA. A town of the Alibamu, or Ala- bama Indians, in Montgomery County, situ- ated upon a high bluff, three miles below Ecunchati, or Ikan-tchati, and on the same side of the Alabama River. This is the same town as the Toasi or Tuasi of the De Soto expedition. De Soto passed a week in the place, Sept. 6-13, 1540, a length of time evidencing its ability to feed, during that in- terval, its unwelcome guests. On their de- parture, the natives evidently under compul- sion, furnished the Spaniards all the baggage carriers they wished and 32 women as slaves.
At some subsequent time the people of Ta- wasa or part of them emigrated to the south- east and became one of those tribes called Apalachicola by the Spaniards. In the be- ginning of raids upon them by the Alibamu, in which they received no help from the Spaniards, they came to Fort Mobile, and sought from Bienville a tract of land upon which to settle. They brought with them all their household effects, and corn with which to plant their fields. Bienville granted this request and gave them lands a league and a half below the fort. The Tawasa were good hunters, and they repaid Bienville's benefi- cence by daily bringing to the fort all kinds of wild game.
In March, 1707, war was declared by the Pascagoulas against the Tawasa, but peace was made through the intervention of Bien- ville. When the French moved to the new Fort Mobile in 1710, they relocated the Ta- wasa on lands just above the Apalaches, very near the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers. How long the Tawasa re- mained on Mobile River is not known. It is certain that they had not emigrated thence in 1716 as the Mobile Catholic church regis-
ter of that year gives the baptism of a "Tou- acha" child, sufficient evidence that the Ta- wasa were still living in that vicinity.
Some obscure points of Tawasa history are here noticed. There is in the possession of the Virginia Historical Society, a manuscript written about 1707 by Robert Beverly, the Virginia historian. This manuscript gives a brief account of the captivity of Lamhatty, a Tawasa Indian, as related by himself, from which the following facts are drawn: in 1706 Tawasa consisted of ten villages, or nations as they are called by Lamhatty. In that year the Tuscaroras made war upon them, de- stroyed three of the villages and carried their people off into slavery. In the spring of the following year the Tuscaroras again made their appearance, and swept away three more of their villages and the inhabitants of three other villages fled. It was in this second raid that Lamhatty was captured. It will be no- ticed that in this narrative he tells of the fate of nine villages. Did the Tawasa at this time under French protection near Mobile make the tenth village? From this meager record it maybe inferred that in the seven- teenth century the Tawasa may have been a confederacy of considerable strength.
Hamilton is of the opinion that the Ta- wasa on Mobile River finally moved across the River and established a village at some mounds near Tawasa Creek in Baldwin Coun- ty. While there is no historic record of this fact, the name of the creek and the local tra- dition that one of the large mounds was the site of the home of a chief, named Tawasha, bring the whole matter within the bounds of historic probability. Assuming the existence of such a settlement, what was the next move- ment of the Tawasa? Is not the Taouacha of Penicaut the same as the Touachys of De Crenay's map of 1733?
This map places the Touachys on the east bank of the lower Coosa River, apparently about twelve miles above Wetumpka. The French census of 1760 gives the tribe,-their name spelled Teouachis, as having ten war- riors, and located seven leagues from Fort Toulouse. In giving this distance the direc- tion from Fort Toulouse is not given, but the fact that in the census the Teouachis are reckoned among the Tallapoosa towns renders it almost certain that they had at last drifted back to their ancestral seat on the Alabama River, which is about seven French leagues distant from Fort Toulouse.
In 1799 the people of Tawasa are described by Col. Hawkins as having patches of pota- toes and ground peas, enclosed with rails or canes, on the east side of the river, with their cornfields in the cane swamps on the west side. The site of old Tawasa below Montgomery was known to the Americans in later times as Weatherford's Bluff, but it seems uncertain whether the name was de- rived from Charles Weatherford, or from his noted son, William Weatherford.
REFERENCES .- Narratives of De Soto (Trail makers series, 1904), vol. 1, p. 85, vol. 2, pp. 74, 75; Handbook of American Indians (1910), vol. 2, p. 704; La Harpe, Historical Journal,
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p. 36; American Anthropologist, n. s. (1906), vol. 10, pp. 568-569; Hamilton, Colonial Mobile (1910), p. 190; Mississippi, Provincial Archives (1911), vol. 1, p. 95; Hawkins, Sketch of the Creek Country (1846).
TAX COMMISSION. See Equalization, State Board of.
TAXES UPON MANUFACTURING. Be- sides asking aid from national legislation in favor of our infant manufactures, it is worthy of the serious consideration of the General Assembly, whether local support may not be beneficially extended. All manufac- turing enterprises, in their inception, involve a heavy outlay of capital, and years elapse before they usually become remunerative. During these years, however, they are con- stantly and directly tributary to the well- being and advancement of the people among whom they are located. It may not be ad- visable for the State to engage in any enter- prise commenced by private citizens for their own benefit, but in view of the general good purpose subserved by them, it may be deemed good policy to lend them a helping hand to the extent of the removal of burdens.
The General Assembly has already acted upon this theory by exempting new enter- prises of this character from taxation, from their commencement until one year after they begin operations. It is respectfully suggested that an extension of this period of freedom from State taxation would in the end prove good policy for the State. It would tend not only to foster enterprises already commenced, but would operate as a strong inducement for the investment of capital, in this manner, in Alabama furnaces, foundries, mills, fac- tories and tanneries. When fully established and prosperous, past the struggling time of infancy, and the period of competition that always threatens the destruction of infant enterprises, a degree of taxation which might be oppressive in early years could be borne without danger, and would doubtless be met with cheerfulness and gratitude, in view of the fostering care bestowed by the State in the years of infancy and feebleness .- (From Report of Commissioner of Industrial Re- sources, 1869, p. 19.)
TAYLOR FIELD. United States Army Aviation Camp and Flying Field. This flying school was located 18 miles southeast of Montgomery during the period of the World war. The property leased consisted of 800 acres of land for which the government paid $4,000 a year as rent, with an option of pur- chase for $32,000. The land was leased November 16, 1917.
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