Newton County GaArchives News.....Dried Indian Creek February 19, 1891
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The Georgia Enterprise February 19, 1891
     “We would respectfully suggest to Col. Si Hawkins and Col. Jim Anderson, 
of the Covington press, the propriety of changing the name of Dried Indian 
Creek, in Newton County, as the name is misleading. The water is now standing 
200 yards wide in the steam just below Covington. There may be a dried Indian 
in the neighborhood, but it is no dried creek.” Columbus Enquirer Sun. We are 
told that “Dried Indian Creek” was so named because of an incident in the long 
ago, when the Indians owned this part of the country. The story goes, that a 
pale face maid was stolen for a wife by an Indian chief, who treated her very 
badly. One day the chief was killed and his body hanged to a tree on the banks 
of this creek, near where the African Church is now located, and where the body 
remained until it was completely dry. It is said that the body hung on this 
tree for 20 years. Since then it has been called, “Dried Indian Creek,” and 
some who believe the story think the creek has been very appropriately named.


The Georgia Enterprise, February 26, 1891
The Columbus Sun, (always fair, just and generous) after reading the origin of 
the name of Dried Indian Creek, is willing for the name to remain as 
heretofore. It says: “Of course, if there was really a dried Indian in the 
case, we cheerfully withdraw our objection to the name of the creek.” The 
Indian “wasn’t in the case” at all, but hung to a tree and dried.


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