Skirmish at Cow Creek

Skirmish at Cow Creek is a Georgia historical marker in Echols County, dedicated 2000.

At intersection of U.S. 129 and Wayfare Road.

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Near here, on August 27, 1836, Georgia Militia companies commanded by Col. Henry Blair, Captain Lindsay and Capt. Levi J. Knight, fought a skirmish with Creek Indians and routed them, killing two and taking several prisoners. During this summer the Indians had committed many raids and massacres as they traversed the border counties on their way to Florida to join the Seminoles. Georgia troops had been following them for weeks, and overtook this band in the cypress swamp on the edge of Cow Creek.

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1831 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1836 · Georgia Pocket Map (Mitchell, 1836) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1837 · Southern States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1842 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Georgia, 1831, covering the location of Skirmish at Cow Creek, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Georgia, 1831, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Skirmish at Cow Creek

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