Willstown

Willstown

Willstown was an important village in the southernmost part of the Cherokee Nation prior to the Indian removal of 1836. The site of Willstown is now occupied by the town of Fort Payne, Alabama.

The settlement was commonly called Willstown, after its headman, a red-headed half-breed named Will, but that was not its real name. According to Major John Norton, son of a Cherokee adoptee of the Mohawk, who travelled extensively throughout the region in the early 19th century and stayed there several times, the actual name of the town would transliterate as "Titsohili".

The Site of Willstown is north of the city of Ft Payne, close to the Valley Head area. The Cherokee removal fort site is in downtown Ft Payne, and there are still reminant earthworks at the site.

References

*Klink, Karl, and James Talman, ed. "The Journal of Major John Norton". (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1970).


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