Running Water Creek
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Running Water Creek gets its name from the creek that runs through the property. Originally, the property was, or near, one of the five Cherokee towns founded by Chief Dragging Canoe, who lived at Running Water. He and his Cherokee followers were opposed to European-American settlement in their lands. So after being pushed out of the hills of North Carolina, Georgia, and East Tn, they settled south of Chattanooga. Later on, they were again pushed down the Tennessee River, settling in what is now known as Marion County. Fed up with moving, they moved further down the Tennessee River, what is now Running Water Creek, Isolating themselves to more distant areas of the frontier to avoid the Colonial Americans. They were later forced onto the Trail of Tears to Arkansas, and later Oklahoma.
