Commissioners were appointed January 16, 1828 for the purpose of “laying a Town at the Coweta Falls in Muscogee County”. The commissioners were listed as Ignatius Few, Philip Alston, Edward L. Degrafenreid, James Halman and Elias Beall with William Few as chain carrier and Sidney Turner as axe man. On the same date of January 16, 1828, while the Commissioners in Milledgeville were appointed to lay out and sell the lots in the Town of Columbus at the Cowetah Falls on the Chattahoochee River, E. L. Thomas was appointed surveyor, arriving at the Falls on the 27th January and “entered upon the duties of my office” on the 28th January, Monday. (Note the differing spellings of Coweta.)