The Upper Trading Path, one of the historic Indian ways of the Southeast, passed here and led westward from present Augusta to tribes as far away as the Mississippi River. Through various connections, the route reached the Muscogees of western Georgia and central Alabama, and the Chickasaws and Choctaws of Mississippi. Its main stem, the Oakfuskee Path, ran past Warrenton, Eatonton, Indian Springs, Griffin, and Greenville to Oakfuskee Town, the chief early center of the Upper Creek Indians on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama. White traders began using this way in the early 1700s.