Colerain, Georgia

Colerain was a small trading post located on the St. Marys River in the state of Georgia. It served as the first location of the United States factory for trade with the Creek Indians in the mid-1790s, until the factory was relocated to the newly constructed Fort Wilkinson in 1797. It was also the site of the signing of the Treaty of Colerain between the Creeks and the United States government on June 29, 1796. The treaty expanded the U.S.-Creek border westward, allowed for Fort Wilkinson's construction, and mandated the removal of the factory there.^[1][2][3]

References

1. Robbie Ethridge, Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 129.
2. J. Leitch Wright, Creeks and Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986), 141
3. "Treaty with the Creeks, 1796," in Charles J. Kappler, ed., Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Vol. II: Treaties (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904), http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/cre0046.htm Accessed Mar. 25, 2012

Coordinates: 30°49′59″N 81°54′02″W / 30.83306°N 81.90056°W