| Georgia (Crisp County), Cordele — 41 0-5 — De Soto Trail — 1540 | | | Hernando de Soto and his army after crossing to the west side of Flint River near Bainbridge, recrossed it on March 31, 1540, between the mouths of Jones and Gum creeks, and stopped at the town of the Ichisi chief. He was the first that came to them in peace after their departure from the Apalachee country and upon the mound of his village they erected a large wooden Cross, April 1, 1540. The Indians “received it and worshipped it devoutly to all appearance.” — Map (db m27270) | | Georgia (Crisp County), Cordele — 040-9 — Spanish-Indian Battle — (1702) | | | Early in 1702 Joseph de Zuńiga, Spanish Governor of Florida, and Pierre le Moyne Iberville, French founder of Louisiana, made plans to check steadily increasing English trade with the Indian tribes in the interior, and perhaps to drive them out of the Southeast. To accomplish this, they agreed to an expedition against the English and their allies, the Creek Indians, in the Carolina territory which is now Georgia.
In August, Governor Zuńiga sent a force northward of more than 800 Spaniards . . . — Map (db m22899) | | Georgia (Crisp County), Cordele — The William Adkins’ Live Oak Tree | | | Spreading its limbs over 100 feet, this Live Oak has comforted and delighted generations of visitors. passerby and owners of the William Adkins Plantation Home.
The Crisp-Dooly Forestry Department measurerd this tree in 1976. It was 56 inches in diameter, over 15 feet in circumference and estimated to be over 160 years old. — Map (db m9134) |
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