Coosa

Important Indian town for over 250 years and capital of Coosa province.

Visited by DeSoto in 1540, and later by Spanish, French, British colonial explorers and traders. Early writers tell of abundant food crops, wild and cultivated, supporting a large ...

Battle of Coosawhatchie

Coosawhatchie

Jasper County, South Carolina

Commanders: Colonels William Moultrie, John

Laurens; Gen. Augustine Prevost

Casualties: 3 Americans killed, 8 wounded

"Despite the defeat at Port Royal Island, General

Prevost was determined to make a second

attempt to capture Charleston. Instead of a

small detachment of 150 men, ...

Coosawhatchie

(Front Side): Coosawhatchie,dating to the 1740s, was named for the Coosaw Tribe. At first it was little more than a store and inn built on the King's Highway by Henry De Saussure, a Huguenot settler from Purrysburg.

By the 1760s, ...