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Photographer: TRCP Alliance
Taken: June 22, 2013
Caption: Dinner Bell Site
Additional Description: The traditional "Dinner Bell" was a primary form of communications for every prominent homestead. The bell was used to signal for distress, fire, and assembly. The bell was rung at noontime to call in the workers from the fields for lunch. The Creek Warriors careful planned their attack on Fort Mims precisely at noon during the meal time. Red Eagle and the Creek Warriors used the ringing of the dinner bell for their signal to attack the unsuspecting settlers in the compound. At noon the dinner bell was rung. The Creek Warriors waited in the surrounding wood for a few minutes afterword to ensure all the fort's occupants were inside. Red Eagle sounded the loud call of the eagle, an eerie, haunting screech that resonated throughout the area. On his signal, the Creek Warriors charged in a rush for the fort.
Submitted: June 30, 2013, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p246121
File Size: 0.533 Megabytes

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