Burnt Corn Spring lay near the Old Federal Road, where its waters flowed into the west branch of the creek that took its name. James Cornells had a residence there before 1813. In the summer of 1813, a war party of 280 Creek Indians burned Cornells' residence and corncribs while en route to obtain guns and ammunition from the Spanish governor in Pensacola. About 20 miles south, one-third of the warriors returning from Pensacola encountered Col. James Caller and 180 Mississippi militiamen seeking to intercept them. Caller and his men camped at this site on July 26th before turning south on the Wolf Trail to fight a skirmish at a ford on Burnt Corn Creek. What began as a Creek civil war spilled into the Battle of Burnt Corn Creek, opening hostilities between the warring Creeks and white settlers in the area. After the massacre at Mims' stockade on August 30, 1813, the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814 was underway. A U.S. post office was established at the spring in October 1817, about the time Mississippi became a state and Alabama a territory.