Chinnaby’s Fort

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Chinnaby’s Fort

1813, Near Oxford
An old Creek Indian defense in Calhoun County.  There is a difference of opinion as to its exact location.  Drake states that in 1813 a friendly Creek chief named Chinnaby had a kind of fort at Ten Islands on the Coosa River, and to which his name was given.  The map accompanying the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, however, places it at a point on the north side of Choccolocco Creek, and near the influx of the Wolfskull Creek.

     References. – Gatschet, in Alabama History Commission, Report (1901), vol. 1, p. 395;                   Drake, Book of Indians (1848), p. 55; Bureau of American Ethnology, Eighteenth Annual Report (1899); pt. 2, map 1; Handbook of American Indians (1907), vol. 1, p. 272.