Tuckabutche

Tuckabutche lies near Sweetwater Creek, which flows southeast toward the Chattahoochee River. Cherokee communities and trading places occupied the country west of the Chattahoochee in the early nineteenth century. In 1832 Georgia surveyed and distributed Cherokee territory through a land lottery, opening tracts in the surrounding region to settlers while Cherokee families still lived there. The creek cuts through a wooded valley before joining the larger river.