Tishabee, also known as Garretts Shop, is an

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in Greene County,

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History

The name Tishabee is derived from the

Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...

words ''tishu'', meaning "assistant (to the chief)" and ''abi'', meaning "killer". The community was first settled in 1817 by Richard Bragg, who also developed Bragg's Bluff. Bragg's Bluff was located west of Tishabee on the banks of the

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. A post office operated under the name Tishabee from 1883 to 1901.

References

Unincorporated communities in Alabama Unincorporated communities in Greene County, Alabama Alabama placenames of Native American origin {{GreeneCountyAL-geo-stub