Chinnabee, also spelled Chinneby or Chinnibee, is an unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama, United States.
Chinnabee, Alabama | |
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 Fort Chinnabee (located in the center) as portrayed in Henry Schenck Tanner's 1830 The Traveler's Pocket Map of Alabama. | |
  Chinnabee, Alabama  Chinnabee, Alabama | |
| Coordinates: 33°27′46″N 85°58′01″W / 33.46278°N 85.96694°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Talladega |
| Elevation | 594 ft (181 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 256 & 938 |
| GNIS feature ID | 159395[1] |
History
editThe community was named for Fort Chinnabee, which was in turn named for Selocta Chinneby, who was a Creek chief. Chinneby is most likely derived from the Muscogee words achina meaning "cedar" and api meaning "tree".[2] Chinnabee is located on the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad.[3]
A post office operated under the name Chinnibee from 1840 to 1884.[4]
The Chinnabee Cotton Mills Corporation was incorporated in 1902.[5] The mill operated at least 1,500 spindles and produced yarn.[6]
Fort Chinnabee
editFort Chinnabee was a defensive stockade built in 1813 by Chief Chinnabee and other allied Creeks for protection against Red Sticks during the Creek War.[7] The fort was built three miles north of Chinnabee's village on the north shore of Choccolocco Creek near the influx of Wolfskull Creek, six miles east of Oxford.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Chinnabee". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Read, William A. (1984). Indian Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-8173-0231-X.
- ^ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
- ^ "Talladega County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
- ^ Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives (1901). Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama. p. 70.
- ^ Southern Hardware. W.R.C. Smith Publishing Company. 1901. p. 11.
- ^ Braund, Kathryn E. Holland (2012). Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War & the War of 1812. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8173-5711-5.
- ^ Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-8173-1125-4.
