Coweta

Coweta was a Lower Creek town on the Chattahoochee River, in the country the Spanish called Apalachicola Province. It was one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy, together with Kasihta, Abihka and Tuckabutche, and a central trading town of the Lower Towns. Its people were known to the English and French as the Caouita. In the early 1690s the Chattahoochee towns moved east to the Ocmulgee River, and in 1715 they returned to their old river, where the English called them the Lower Creeks. The river tied Coweta to the Spanish in Florida and the English traders of Carolina.