Talk:Mad Town

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Muskogee name

In modern spelling the Muskogee name of this town would be Tvlofv Haco, pronounced like "Talofa Hadjo."

In IPA transcription: / tɑ ló fɑ hɑː t͡ʃo /

Tvlofv means a settlement; haco means crazy, berserk. -- Rob (talk) 09:15, 22 August 2017 (PDT)

1894 map

  • The Alabama map created by Charles Royce for the series, "Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894," published in part 2 of the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution shows both "Old Mad Town" near Birmingham, perhaps near Grandview Medical Center (T 18 S, R 2 W) and "Tullawahajah Town" a little further south by southwest, perhaps near Chace Lake (T 19 S, R 3 W). (link) --Dystopos (talk) 10:58, 22 August 2019 (PDT)