Yamacraw
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The Yamacraw were a Native American tribe that emerged in the early 18th century, occupying parts of what became Georgia, specifically along the bluffs near the mouth of the Savannah River where it en
A Yamacraw delegation (right) meeting with the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America in 1734
Tomochichi
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Tomochichi was the head chief of a Yamacraw town on the site of present-day Savannah, Georgia, in the 18th century. He gave land on Yamacraw Bluff to James Oglethorpe to build the city of Savannah. He
Yamacraw
…main part of the Lower Creek people. Their area was later developed as the city of Savannah. The Yamacraw tribe was formed in the late 1720s by leader Tomochichi from some bands of Yamasee and Lower Creek people who had disagreed with the severing of friendship with the British during the Yamasee War of 1715…
Tomochichi and his nephew, Toonahawi
Tomo chi chi and other Yamacraws Native Americans
Tomochichi Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (Chatham County, Georgia)
Plaque on the stone marker in Wright Square