HOW BURNT CORN GOT ITS NAME?
The naming of Burnt Corn is an interesting tale. The truth is, I really don't know how Burnt Corn got it's name, but there are different accounts on how it is belived to have gotten its name.
Belief #1Some believe when white settlers moved into to the area of Burnt Corn Creek now known as Burnt Corn, they burned the Creek Indians (then known as red sticks) corn fields to clear land to homestead.
Belief #2Others believe that the Creek Indians burned the white settlers corn cribs in an effort to drive them away from their land.
Belief #3Reported by Samual A. Rumore, Jr and appeared in the January 1997 issue of the The Alabama Lawyer that the main path from Pensacola to the Upper Creek Nation passed by a spring (Burnt Corn Creek). A group of Indians traveling on the path were forced to leave an ailing companion there. They provided him with a supply of corn. When he recovered, he had no way to carry the leftover corn so it stayed on the ground and eventually burned in his camp fire. Other travelers came along the trail and noted that they camped at a spring where the "corn had burnt." The name Burnt Corn has remained there ever since.
Belief #4A party of Indians on their way to Pensacola, stopped at James Cornells' trading house, burned his corncribs, took his new wife, and brought her to Pensacola where she was traded for an Indian blanket, The creek where Cornells settled took the name "Burnt Corn" because of the destruction of Cornells' barn and his supply of corn.
What we do know about the History of Burnt Corn is that for over a hundred years Whites and Indians, and Blacks and Indians lived in peace and harmony and intermarried in Burnt Corn until July 1813 when the Battle of Burnt Corn occurred that led to the Creek War of 1813 and 1814.
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