Cypress Creek (Alabama)

Cypress Creek is a watercourse in Alabama, United States, tributary to the Tennessee River.^[1] The Cherokee language name for this creek was Te Kee, ta, no-eh and it was the boundary of a land reserve for Chief Doublehead, granted in 1805 by the Cotton Gin Treaty (and extinguished in 1817 by the Jackson and McMinn Treaty).^[2] Cypress Creek was proposed as the site of a national armory along Jackson's Military Road and surveyed by the federal government in 1817, 1823, and 1828.^[3] The place where two tributaries of the Cypress Creek forked off was the source of the name for the Forks of Cypress plantation of James Jackson, best known today as a place where writer Alex Haley's ancestors were enslaved before the American Civil War.^[4]