Chinnabee, Alabama

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Chinnabee, Alabama
Unincorporated community
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Fort Chinnabee (located in the center) as portrayed in Henry Schenck Tanner's 1830 The Traveler's Pocket Map of Alabama.
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Chinnabee, Alabama
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Chinnabee, Alabama
Coordinates: 33°27′46″N85°58′01″W / 33.46278°N 85.96694°W / 33.46278; -85.96694 Coordinates: 33°27′46″N85°58′01″W / 33.46278°N 85.96694°W / 33.46278; -85.96694
Country United States
State Alabama
County Talladega
Elevation
594 ft (181 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 256 & 938
GNIS feature ID159395 [1]

Chinnabee, also spelled Chinneby or Chinnibee, is an unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama, United States.

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History

The community was named for Fort Chinnabee, which was in turn named for Selocta Chinneby, who was a Creek chief. Chinneby is most likely derived from the Muscogee words achina meaning "cedar" and api meaning "tree". [2] Chinnabee is located on the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad. [3]

A post office operated under the name Chinnibee from 1840 to 1884. [4]

The Chinnabee Cotton Mills Corporation was incorporated in 1902. [5] The mill operated at least 1,500 spindles and produced yarn. [6]

Fort Chinnabee

Fort Chinnabee was a defensive stockade built in 1813 by Chief Chinnabee and other allied Creeks for protection against Red Sticks during the Creek War. [7] The fort was built three miles north of Chinnabee's village on the north shore of Choccolocco Creek near the influx of Wolfskull Creek, six miles east of Oxford. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chinnabee". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Read, William A. (1984). Indian Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 17. ISBN   0-8173-0231-X.
  3. ↑ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 33. ISBN   0-8173-0410-X.
  4. ↑ "Talladega County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  5. ↑ Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives (1901). Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama. p. 70.
  6. ↑ Southern Hardware. W.R.C. Smith Publishing Company. 1901. p. 11.
  7. ↑ Braund, Kathryn E. Holland (2012). Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War & the War of 1812. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 210. ISBN   978-0-8173-5711-5.
  8. ↑ Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 38. ISBN   0-8173-1125-4.
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