Savannah Town, South Carolina had been first observed in the 1670s as a Westo village, located on the Savannah River below the fall line in present day Aiken County.

The Savannah (Shawnee) had displaced the Westos in a 1679-1680 trade war, and the town bore their name on a 1685 Joel Gascoyne Plat of the Province of Carolina.

Savannah Town has become important to the growing colony for its profitable trade with the natives, and for frontier defense.

A thriving business has developed around traders who with their pack horses spread throughout the western wilderness.

The Proprietors in 1692, had hoped for traders to reside at "Savannah town".

Colonel Thomas Welch reaches the Mississippi River in 1698, on a trail that will come to be the Upper Trading Path to the Chickasaw homeland.

Iron and woolen goods are offered in exchange for skins, which will come to be shipped by the thousands from Savannah Town via oared 'periagoe' to Charles Town, and thence Europe.