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Battle of Taliwa State Historical Marker
- Battle of Taliwa State Historical
Marker
- Located on Ga. 372 at the downtown railroad crossing
in Ball Ground, Ga.
(Text)
- BATTLE OF TALIWA
Two and one-half miles to the east,
near the confluence of Long-Swamp Creek and the Etowah River,
is the traditional site of Taliwa, scene of the fiercest and
most decisive battle in the long war of the 1740's and 50's between
the Cherokee and Creek Indians.
There, about 1755, the great Cherokee
war-chief, Oconostota, led 500 of his warriors to victory over
a larger band of Creeks. So complete was the defeat that the
Creeks retreated south of the Chattahoochee River, leaving to
their opponents the region later to become the heart of the ill-fated
Cherokee Nation.
- 028-1 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1953
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