Kealedji

Kealedji was a Creek town whose late eighteenth-century site lay beside Kialijee Creek, a tributary of the Tallapoosa. Benjamin Hawkins described fields occupying narrow creek flats and bends, surrounded by broken, gravelly or stony ground. Pine, oak and small hickory grew nearby. The town also had two dependent villages: Auche nau hatche, where Hawkins noted flourishing peach trees, and Hatchechubba, a small settlement in pine woodland.

The town appears under variant spellings in eighteenth-century lists, including a Spanish record of 1738. Traders attached to it in 1797 included John O'Reilly and Townlay Bruce. Its history also bore the violence of the Creek War: the main town and Hatchechubba were burned by hostile Creeks in 1813. Kealedji nevertheless remained a named community in the list of 1832. These records show a town with its own agricultural setting and dependent settlements, as well as ties to the wider Creek trading world.