Tuckabatchee

Tuckabatchee was a Muscogee tribal town on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama, one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy and part of the Upper Creeks. It stood from at least 1690 until after 1835. The town was remembered as the first hearth of the sacred busk fire that opened the Green Corn Ceremony.

In 1811 the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa addressed Creek leaders in its square, urging resistance to American expansion. It was home to Big Warrior, one of the two principal Creek chiefs until his death in 1826.

During the Creek War of 1813 Red Stick rebels drove out the chiefs and destroyed Tuckabatchee. Its people were escorted to safety at Coweta by warriors from Cusseta and Coweta; the town was rebuilt and lasted until the removals west after 1835.