Tallassee is a city on the Tallapoosa River, located in both Elmore and Tallapoosa counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. At the 2020 census, the population was 4,763. It is home to a major hydroelect
Tallassee City Hall in 2021
Johnny Hammock with his wife, Kimberly Hammock (left) and Congressmember Martha Roby in 2020.
The historic Hotel Talisi pictured in 2007.
Built in 1844, the Tallassee cotton mill was converted into an armory for producing carbines during the American Civil War.
Osceola, named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfather was a Scotsman, James McQueen. He was reared by hi
Tallassee, Alabama
…Fort Mims, about 35 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, killing most of the more than 500 settlers and mixed-race Lower Creek who had taken refuge there. Osceola is believed to have been born in Talisi, to a full-blooded Creek mother and a half-Scottish father. He was among those Creek who migrated to Florida…
Portrait by George Catlin, 1838
Historical monument honoring Osceola near his birthplace in Tallassee, Alabama.
"The Wife and Child of Osceola" from Holden's Dollar Magazine, volume 6, no. 4 (October 1850): 591–592.
The Sedgeford Hall Portrait, once believed to represent Matoaka (Pocahontas) and her son, has been re-identified as being Pe-o-ka (wife of Osceola) and their son.