The post and creek are said to have been named for Red Headed Will, a local Cherokee chief.
[2] Brown, or A-wih, as he was known in Cherokee, and his sister Catharine, born about 1800, were sent as youths to the boarding school of Cyrus Kingsbury in Tennessee.
In November 1819, he assisted John Arch in the preparation and printing of a Cherokee spelling book.
Returning to the South, Brown served as a missionary at Creek Path, in what became Mississippi.
They were dispossessed of most of their eastern lands by the United States government in defiance of treaty obligations.