A Muscogee (Creek) town at the confluence of the Sipsey and Mulberry forks, near present-day Sipsey in Walker County - one of the northernmost settlements of the Creek Nation. It stood near the meeting point of Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw territory, and served as a place where members of the three nations came together to trade and to rest from hunting. It was the southern end of the Black Warrior Road, the trading path that ran down from Ditto’s Landing along the ridge behind what is now Smoke Rise.
In October 1813, early in the Creek War, Andrew Jackson ordered the town destroyed. Colonel John Coffee marched about a hundred miles south from the Tennessee River and burned two towns - a small village, then the main town eight miles beyond it, a council house and some fifty other buildings. Both were abandoned before he arrived. Coffee’s report to Jackson does not give the day; it places the burning in the third week of October 1813. Local accounts differ on how the town came to be empty, and much of the wider Creek War literature places “Black Warrior’s Town” at the Falls of the Black Warrior near Tuscaloosa instead - a disagreement that goes back to Coffee’s own guides, who argued about the site in the field.
Full story: Black Warrior Road & the Creek Removal.