This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YS.2ADI/3108.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The following email is presented here my permission of the author, Ron Thomas, member of the Board of Directors of the Henry County Historical Group, Inc., Chairman of the agressive Henry County Cemetery Project, and avid county historian. It gives us a different prospective. _____________________________ Steve, I noticed your reference to the “painted rock” theory of the Chattahoochee ’s name in a post you did on the ALHenry thing. I don’t necessarily buy it and have my own theory. “Yatta,” “Chatta,” “Choctaw,” are all similar terms that are connected to local streams: The Yatta Abba, the Chattahoochee, and the Choctawhatchee. “Grove of Dogwoods” or "Painted Rocks" notwithstanding, I believe that these 3 terms are slight variations of one common term that means stream or river. Looking at the Abbie’s wide valley and high banks, it’s obvious that in the past it was a much more mighty stream, and even today it is as large as some other streams that are called rivers -- like the Choctawhatchee. Follow the big river up to the fall line, and you reach the land of the Uchees, that enigmatic tribe that nobody quite can account for. If someone were using native language to tell a European what body of water flowed here, might he not say it was the river of the Uchees? Might he not say “Yatta” “Uchee?” Might this not be understood as Chattahoochee? I think so, and it sounds as good as painted rocks to me. Ron

Rebel Bill Nordon once published in Henry's Heritage Chattahoochee meant Valley of Paradise. Or Haven of Paradise. Le ----- Original Message ----- From: <jselliott37@yahoo.com> To: <ALHENRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [ALHENRY] Chattahoochee River This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YS.2ADI/3108.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The following email is presented here my permission of the author, Ron Thomas, member of the Board of Directors of the Henry County Historical Group, Inc., Chairman of the agressive Henry County Cemetery Project, and avid county historian. It gives us a different prospective. _____________________________ Steve, I noticed your reference to the “painted rock” theory of the Chattahoochee ’s name in a post you did on the ALHenry thing. I don’t necessarily buy it and have my own theory. “Yatta,” “Chatta,” “Choctaw,” are all similar terms that are connected to local streams: The Yatta Abba, the Chattahoochee, and the Choctawhatchee. “Grove of Dogwoods” or "Painted Rocks" notwithstanding, I believe that these 3 terms are slight variations of one common term that means stream or river. Looking at the Abbie’s wide valley and high banks, it’s obvious that in the past it was a much more mighty stream, and even today it is as large as some other streams that are called rivers -- like the Choctawhatchee. Follow the big river up to the fall line, and you reach the land of the Uchees, that enigmatic tribe that nobody quite can account for. If someone were using native language to tell a European what body of water flowed here, might he not say it was the river of the Uchees? Might he not say “Yatta” “Uchee?” Might this not be understood as Chattahoochee? I think so, and it sounds as good as painted rocks to me. Ron ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHENRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message