Native history
Early
documented 1782; to 1821
City of Atlanta
Location approximate

Standing Peachtree

A Muscogee (Creek) town and trading place at the mouth of Peachtree Creek, on both banks of the Chattahoochee. It is first recorded in a 1782 letter.

See it on the map All Early records

The record

The GHS marker describes a Creek village on both sides of the river at the creek mouth, named 'Standing Peach Tree' in Gov. John Martin's letter of May 27, 1782, to Gen. Andrew Pickens. The Atlanta History Center gives the Muscogee name as Pakanahuili and notes that peach orchards were common at Creek towns; the marker keeps open the rival 'pitch tree' explanation. The marker traces the original Peach Tree Trail from Buzzard Roost to Standing Peachtree and on via Moores Mill Road to Buckhead. Fort Peachtree was built on the hill to the north in 1813-14, and the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs ceded the east bank.