Tugaloo

"[2] Tugaloo was classified as one of the Cherokee "Lower Towns", located in southwestern South Carolina and northeastern Georgia.

"[4][5] Col. Chicken convinced the Cherokee leaders to fight against the Savanna, Yuchi, and Apalachee peoples as allies of the English.

[7] At the time of James Adair's publishing of his magnum opus, The History of the American Indians, in 1775, the Cherokee towns of Ishtatohe (Estatoe) and Toogalo (Tugaloo) along the head waters of the Savannah River were already either forsaken or destroyed because of the incessant wars.

[8] After the United States gained independence in the American Revolutionary War, General Joseph Martin, U.S. Special Agent to the Cherokee and Chickasaw, visited the once-famous site of Tugaloo town in 1788.

[10] Martin sent McGillivray the resolutions of Congress pertaining to Cherokee affairs, and expressed a desire for tensions between the United States and the Creek Nation to end.

[11] In 1798, Superintendent Benjamin Hawkins, in charge of Southeastern regional Native American relations, used Tugaloo town as one of the landmarks for the boundary between the state of Georgia and Muscogee Creek territory.

[13][1] The Tugaloo Bend Heritage Park was established near Yonah Dam and what is believed to have been the ancient site of Estatoe.

During much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after the Cherokee had been removed from the Southeast and forced to Indian Territory, this property was farmed for agriculture.

[14] The park is at the northern end of the roughly 10-mile long Historic Tugaloo River Corridor, which extends downriver to the upper reaches of Lake Hartwell.