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Oconee was a tribal town of Hitchiti-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands during the 17th and 18th centuries. First mentioned by the Spanish as part of the Apalachicola Province on the Chattahoochee River , Oconee moved with other towns of the province to central Georgia between 1690 and 1692.
The Oconee War was a military conflict in the 1780s and 1790s between European Colonists and the Creek Indians known as the Oconee, who lived in an area between the Apalachee and North Oconee rivers in the state of Georgia.
A map showing the Hernando de Soto expedition route through Ocute and other nearby chiefdoms. Based on Charles M. Hudson's 1997 map. Ocute, later known as Altamaha or La Tama and sometimes known conventionally as the Oconee province, was a Native American paramount chiefdom in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Georgia in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Oconee (tribal town), Hitchiti speakers that became part of the Seminole and Creek nations Oconee War , in Georgia, USA, 1780s–1790s Oconee Nuclear Generating Station , in South Carolina
Hitchiti was only one of several tribal towns whose members primarily spoke the Hitchiti language. Other Hitchiti-speaking towns included Apalachicola, Oconee, Osuchi, and Ocmulque, and possibly Chiacahuti, Talipaste, Ylapi, Tacusa, and Sabacola. [2] The people of those towns were collectively referred to as "Hitchiti". [3]
The dinner was a fundraiser to christen the reopening of the historic iron bridge that crosses the North Oconee River and provides access to both sides of the nearly 100-acre cemetery.
Ahaya was born to the Hitchiti-speaking Oconee, who lived in a town at a site now called "Oconee Old Town", on the Oconee River, in what is now central Georgia. In the late 1720s the Oconee people moved to the Chattahoochee River, among the Hitchiti- and Mikasuki-speaking Lower Towns of the Muscogee Confederacy.
The Oconee County Courthouse on Main Street in Watkinsville is now strictly a workplace for the various judicial operations. This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: ...