That was all rambling off the top of my head. I do that a lot! ;-) I wondered what Sparks meant by "high hills". Yes, the banks are quite steep and high but I got the impression he was talking about hills near the creek. But again, he wrote this many years after the war and could have had it mixed up with another event.

The allotment comment, which comes from the Indian-Pioneer Papers from an interview with the son-in-law in a family that lived there at the time of the battles, was of course many years after the war and some years after allotment. He specifically mentions the Lula Phillips allotment, which per the allotment map is on Delaware Creek, but I wondered if he meant Lula Brown.

You're going to make me go back and find/confirm that I'm remembering this right! I haven't looked at this for some time now -- I'm always off on another tangent. Short attention span!

No. Never found Parks' store with any certainty though I believe Parks lived at or near the mouth of Candy Creek where the Cooweescoowee Courthouse was located. The store may have been there but I assumed it was closer to the vicinity of the mouth of Hominy Creek. It seems likely but I am not certain the store was actually owned by Robt C. Parks -- could have been another Parks.

I'll pull together my sources and re-read the articles that Robert posted. I have a number of secondary sources that nearly all contradict each other. Typical.

Ken