McIntosh Gate honors Brig. General William McIntosh of the U.S. Army, chief of the Coweta Tribe of the Creek Nation, who negotiated a treaty ceding this territory to the United States, including the land on which the Depot now stands. The son of a Scotsman, Captain William McIntosh, and a Creek Indian princess, General McIntosh distinguished himself under General Floyd and General Jackson during the War of 1812. He was born in 1780 and died at the hands of fellow Indians in the spring of 1825.