Cypress Creek (Alabama)

Cypress Creek is a watercourse in Alabama, United States, tributary to the Tennessee River. The Cherokee language name for this creek was Te Kee, ta, no-eh and it was the boundary of a land reserve for Chief Doublehead, granted in 1805 by the Cotton Gin Treaty (and extinguished in 1817 by the Jackson and McMinn Treaty).[1] Cypress Creek was proposed as the site of a national armory along Jackson's Military Road and surveyed by the federal government in 1817, 1823, and 1828.[2] The place where two tributaries of the Cypress Creek forked off was the source of the name for the Forks of Cypress plantation of James Jackson, best known today as a place where writer Alex Haley's ancestors were enslaved before the American Civil War.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Treaty with the Cherokee, 1817". treaties.okstate.edu. Retrieved 2026-02-15.
  2. ^ Rice (1975a), p. 5.
  3. ^ Matrana (2009), pp. 117–120.

Sources

  • Matrana, Marc R. (2009). Lost Plantations of the South. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-942-2.
  • Rice, Turner (1975a). "Andrew Jackson and His Northwest Alabama Interests". Journal of Muscle Shoals History. 3. University of North Alabama. Florence, Alabama: Tennessee Valley Historical Society: 3–12. ISSN 0094-8039. LCCN 74646773. OCLC 1795446.
  • Rice, Turner (1975b). "The Cypress Land Company: A Dream of Empire". Journal of Muscle Shoals History. 3. University of North Alabama. Florence, Alabama: Tennessee Valley Historical Society: 21–35. ISSN 0094-8039. LCCN 74646773. OCLC 1795446.
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