Coweta

Coweta was a Muscogee town on the lower Chattahoochee River, in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province, and one of four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy. Its valley supported Lamar farming villages with platform mounds from the fourteenth century.

With other Chattahoochee towns, Coweta moved east into central Georgia in the late seventeenth century, where the English called its people Ochese Creek Indians, and returned to the Chattahoochee after the Yamasee War of 1715, becoming a leading Lower Creek market town. Its mico Hoboyetly, Emperor Brim to the British, shifted British, French and Spanish alliances through the war until his death in 1733.

The later Coweta chief William McIntosh signed the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825, surrendering most of the Muscogees' remaining land, and was executed by men of the Creek National Council the same year, on the eve of forced removal to Indian Territory.