Burnt Corn (or Burnt Corn Spring) is a small community in Monroe County, Alabama at a historic crossroads near the source of Burnt Corn Creek and the intersection of two trading paths. Monroe County is a county of the State of Alabama. ...

The town and the creek may have been named for an incident in which travelers found a parched mound of corn beside the spring. In 1798 the area was included in the Mississippi Territory but was controlled by the Creek Nation. Between 1805 and 1811 the area became a stop on the Federal Road through the Creek Nation. Settlers in the area started farms worked by African American slaves. all about mississippi! Mississippi state bird is a mocking bird mississippi state tree is mangoila tree ... The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ... The Federal Road was a project that started in 1805 when the Creek Indians gave a permission for the development of a horse path through their nation for more efficient mail delivery between Washington City (D.C.) and New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

The Battle of Burnt Corn, which began the Creek War in July 1813, did not occur at Burnt Corn, but at a ford of Burnt Corn Creek. When the Creek Nation was forced to cede land to the United States in 1815, Burnt Corn Spring was included in a 640-acre land grant to Jim Cornells, a Creek Indian who fought on the U.S. side in the war.^[1] The Battle of Burnt Corn was an encounter between United States forces and Creek Indians that took place July 27, 1813. ... Combatants United States Lower Creeks Cherokees Red Sticks (Creek Indians) Commanders Andrew Jackson John Coffee William McIntosh William Weatherford Menawa Peter McQueen Strength 7,000 4,000 Casualties 500 Settlers 125 Soldiers 1,900 The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil... The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ...

U.S. postal service to Burnt Corn began in 1817, when the village also became part of the Alabama Territory. A school, the "Students' Retreat," was organized in 1820, followed by a Baptist church in 1821. Alabama Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States that was created out of the from the eastern portion of Mississippi Territory. ...

Burnt Corn was considered a thriving community in the early twentieth century. The present-day community is centered on a combined post office and general store.

External links

• www.burntcorn.com

References

1. ^ B.F. Riley, History of Conecuh County (1881), ch. 8 http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/conecuh/history/other/gms24historyo.txt