Chinnabee, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Fort Chinnabee (located in the center) as portrayed in Henry Schenck Tanner's 1830 The Traveler's Pocket Map of Alabama.
Fort Chinnabee (located in the center) as portrayed in Henry Schenck Tanner's 1830 The Traveler's Pocket Map of Alabama.
Chinnabee, Alabama is located in Alabama
Chinnabee, Alabama
Chinnabee, Alabama
Chinnabee, Alabama is located in the United States
Chinnabee, Alabama
Chinnabee, Alabama
Coordinates: 33°27′46″N 85°58′01″W / 33.46278°N 85.96694°W / 33.46278; -85.96694
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyTalladega
Elevation
594 ft (181 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)256 & 938
GNIS feature ID159395[1]

Chinnabee, also spelled Chinneby or Chinnibee, is an unincorporated community in Talladega County, Alabama, United States.

History

The 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

Fort 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

  1. ^ "Chinnabee". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Read, William A. (1984). Indian Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-8173-0231-X.
  3. ^ Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 33. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  4. ^ "Talladega County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  5. ^ Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives (1901). Journal of the House of Representatives, State of Alabama. p. 70.
  6. ^ Southern Hardware. W.R.C. Smith Publishing Company. 1901. p. 11.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Harris, W. Stuart (1977). Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-8173-1125-4.


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