East Tallassee Alabama

Tallassee is a city in Elmore County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 4,934.

History

The Creek Wars and Indian Removal

Some historians and archeologists posit that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries this verdant area was the second largest permanent Indian settlement in North America. The Creek Indian ancestors in this area were Mississippian Mound Builders who relied greatly on fishing and riverway trading (c. f. Yahoo! Canada Directory > USA > Alabama > East Tallassee. Moundville, Tuscaloosa).

The Tallassee area was also the home of the last great Creek capitol city, Tuckabatchie as well as the Great Council Tree which was destroyed by a high wind in 1929. After a visit by the Shawnee hero, Tecumseh, who urged the Creek to join the Great Confederation, the Creek split into two distinct factions; the White Stick Creek who sided with the federal government and the Red Stick Creek who opposed the settlement of their land by whites (see also Baton Rouge, Indian Territory and Oklahoma). Osceola, who would later become chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida and for whom Florida State University's mascot is named, is believed to have been born in Talisi.

The Creek Wars were marked by mutual raids, scalpings and civilian massacres by both sides. Free 1-4 Room Directv East Tallassee AL.