De Soto Trail
1540
Hernando de Soto discovered Ocmulgee River at or near Abbeville on April 3, 1540. “Here,” says the chronicler Biedma, “we found a river that had a course not southwardly, like the rest we had passed, but eastward to the sea.” Next day the Altamaha Indians “brought many canoes and the army crossed very comfortably” to their principal town where they met its chief Camumo and the great chief of Ocute from the river above, and here they created a second wooden cross.
De Soto Quadri-Centennial-1940
Marker is at the intersection of North Broad Street (U.S. 129) and East Main Street (U.S. 280), on the left when traveling south on North Broad Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
