Chootawatchee

The Choctawhatchee rises in two forks among the wetlands and forests of southeastern Alabama. The branches meet before the river turns south toward the Gulf, receiving the Pea River near the Florida border and eventually entering Choctawhatchee Bay. The country along its course was home to several Indigenous peoples. In the 1670s the Chisca moved west from the Apalachicola and established a fortified village on the Choctawhatchee, amid conflict with Spanish missions and their allies.