Estatoe

Estatoe was a Cherokee town on the Tugaloo River, one of the Lower Towns in the valleys of the Savannah's upper tributaries. Paths linked it with nearby Tugaloo and other settlements beyond the mountain ridges. In the eighteenth century the towns became involved in trade and the shifting alliances of the colonial frontier. Repeated warfare took a heavy toll, and by the time James Adair published his history in 1775 he described Estatoe and Tugaloo as abandoned or destroyed.