William McIntosh, a Scotch-Coweta chief of the Coweta Towns, was a distinguished soldier at the battles of Autossee and Horseshoe Bend and in the Seminole Wars with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was killed here by Upper Creeks and is buried at the site of his home. As a leading Creek collaborator with whites, he assembled at Indian Springs in February 1825 a small group of Lower Creek chiefs who ceded all Creek lands in Georgia west of the Flint River. Angered by this, Upper Creeks pronounced a death sentence and a large party of warriors carried it out. The lives of women, children, and white men were spared, but the McIntosh plantation known as 'Lochau Talofau' on Acorn Bluff was devastated. This tract was part of the original one square mile area centered on McIntosh's Ferry that was withheld from the land lottery as a possible town site.