Chatahoochee

The Chattahoochee flows southwest from the southern Blue Ridge through the wooded uplands of Georgia. Farther south it joins the Flint, forming the Apalachicola River and a route to the Gulf of Mexico. Creek towns stood along its banks, and early eighteenth-century maps show a Chattahoochee settlement near a crossing used by a major trading path. That road connected Carolina traders with the Upper Creek towns of the Tallapoosa valley and with peoples farther west.