Burnt Corn, Monroe County's earliest settlement, became the crossroads of the Great Pensacola Trading Path and the Federal Road. In 1813, settler Jim Cornells returned from Pensacola to find his home destroyed and his wife kidnapped by a Creek Indian war party. As the Creeks returned from procuring arms in Pensacola, Cornells and volunteers ambushed them, beginning the Creek Indian War of 1813-1814.