Chattooga Town was one of the Cherokee Lower Towns in what is now South Carolina during the 17th and early 18th centuries, located a short distance north in the Chattooga River bottom. In 1721, when it appeared as “Chattoogie” in the British census of Cherokee towns, it was the smallest of the Lower Towns, with only 90 inhabitants. The town stood on a main trading path that crossed the Chattooga River and connected the Lower Towns in what is now South Carolina to those in what are now Georgia and North Carolina. Historical and archaeological research indicates that the town was largely abandoned by 1740, and accounts of expeditions to this area in 1760-61 do not mention it. Walter Adair, the last Cherokee to live here, sold his land in 1816.