The closest Native American settlement to what…

The closest Native American settlement to what is now Atlanta was Standing Peachtree, a Creek village where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River.

The indigenous Creek people and their ancestors have inhabited the area for thousands of years prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia.

Through the early nineteenth century, European Americans have systematically encroached on the Creek of northern Georgia, forcing them out of the area from 1802 to 1825.

The Creek had been forced to leave the area in 1821, under Indian Removal by the federal government, and European American settlers had arrived the following year.