The part of Beat One called Ourtown was once inhabited by the Red Man, and there are legends about an old Prophet Tree that existed between the Mt. Zion and the Ourtown communities, near the old Campbellite Church. There was a well-known Indian Trail from Talladega, through lands where Ourtown and Willow Point Country Club are today, to the large Indian settlement or village of Kowaliga. An Indian prophet prophesied that the Indians would be victorious at Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814, in the decisive battle of the Creek War. After the white man won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the Indians tied the Prophet to a tree and stoned him to death, while he was trying to return to Kowaliga. The scars caused by these stones remained on this tree as long as it existed.

The White Man’s obsession for gold had disgusted the Indians. The early settlers had hunted the precious metal at Hog Mountain, Dutch Bend and other places in the county. The Creeks told them that there was gold in a small stream one-half mile north of what is Ourtown today. They searched diligently for this nonexistent gold but, of course, found none. Since that time, this branch has been called “Gold Branch,” and this area, politically designated at Beat One, Tallapoosa County, became known as Gold Branch Beat.