Back when Bulloch County was nothing but wilderness, the area's Native Americans regularly hunted throughout the area. As whites began to establish farms and then settle, they were attacked and driven back into the settlements around Savannah. In fact, on February 17, 1788, Brigadier General James Jackson, the Commander of Georgia's First District Militia, ordered that scouts were to be sent "up and down from Fort Argyle" to search for Indian hunting or war parties.