Trading with the British 1690-1715

Trading with the British 1690-1715. Ocmulgee National Monument. , Trading with the British 1690-1715 , The Creek Trading Paths, the Trading Post Site, and Civil War (1864) , Hundreds of axes, beads, clay pipes, knives, swords, bullets, flints, pistols, muskets, and burial pits were found in this area, contributing additional knowledge to the story of the human activities at the Ocmulgee Fields. Recovered artifacts are displayed for your viewing in the park visitor center., The Creeks had three trading paths; they were the lower, middle, and upper. The lower and middle trading paths met here, making it an ideal place for a trading post., Almost 100 years before the American Revolution was fought, the Creeks traded with the British at Ocmulgee. In 1690, an English trader from Charleston built a trading store adjacent to the traditional Creek trading path that went from Augusta, Georgia to the lower Creek Towns along the Chattahoochee River. A stockade wall and a shallow ditch surrounded the trading store for protection from attack., The Creeks traded for European goods such as guns, iron pots, knives, and cotton cloth in exchange for fur and skins. The Creeks moved back to the Chattahoochee River and abandoned the village after the Yamassee War erupted in 1715 in protest against the British corruption related to fur trade practices., Archaeological excavations have located the sites of the trading post store, the stockade walls, and the Creek trading path. A Civil War trench was also identified that bisected both the trading post and the path, probably constructed in 1864 by conscripted slave labor when Georgia Governor Brown called upon the citizens of Macon to protect the city from oncoming forces of Union General W.T. Sherman.