DeSoto Trail
Hernando de Soto discovered Ocmulgee at or near Abbeville on April 3, 1540. `Here,` says the chronicler Biedma, `we found a river that had a course not southwardly, like the rest we had passed, but eastward to the sea.` Next day the Altamaha Inidans `brought many canoes and the army crossed very comfrotably in their principal town where they met it chief Camumo and the great chielf of Ocute from the rivr above and here they created a second wooden cross.
DE SOTO QUADRI-CENTENNIAL- 1940
WPA 11 H-5
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.