Editing Center Hill, Florida (section)

===Second Seminole War===

{{See also|Dade Massacre|Second Seminole War}}

Whites called the town "Abraham's Old Town", after Abraham,<ref name="CH Dig">{{cite news |last=Erickson |first=Stephanie |title=Student Delves Into Buried Past |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=Aug 25, 2001 |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2001/08/25/student-delves-into-buried-past/ |access-date=Mar 7, 2014}}</ref> a former slave who had been given his freedom by the British<ref name="Common">{{cite news |last=Robison |first=Jim |title=Common Foe United Blacks, Seminoles | newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=Sep 16, 2001 |url= https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2001/09/16/common-foe-united-blacks-seminoles/ |access-date=Mar 7, 2014}}</ref> and who served as a recruiter and an interpreter for the Seminoles.<ref name="JR OS"/> After hearing that [[Francis L. Dade]] and his men were to cross through the territory, Abraham anticipated an attack on Peliklakaha and convinced Micanopy to move Seminole soldiers to the Fort King Road.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rivers |first=Larry Eugene |title=Chapter 10: Interaction Between Blacks and Indians |work=Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation |publisher=University Press of Florida |date=2000 |url=http://africanaheritage.com/RiverSlaveryinFLexcerpt.asp |access-date=Feb 25, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140509190704/http://africanaheritage.com/RiverSlaveryinFLexcerpt.asp |archive-date=2014-05-09 }}</ref> Abraham left the village after [[Dade's Massacre]] on December 28, 1835.<ref name="JR OS"/> A short time later in 1836, General [[Winfield Scott]] moved General [[Abraham Eustis]]' troops to the Peliklakaha area to destroy the Seminoles.{{sfn |Hatch|2012|p=59}} General Eustis and his troops burned Peliklakaha;<ref name="JR OS"/> no Seminoles were killed as Peliklakaha's population fled to the Wahoo Swamp before Eustis’ forces arrived.{{sfn |Hatch|2012|p=146}} General Eustis would later commission a painting depicting the burning of Peliklakaha,<ref name="CH Dig"/> which later was hung in the [[Library of Congress]].<ref name="UF Student"/>

On April 19, 1842, Colonel [[William J. Worth]] attacked [[Halleck Tustenuggee]] at Peliklakaha. During the battle, Halleck Tustenuggee and his warriors constructed a log barricade. United States Army soldiers attacked the front of the barricade while dragoons attacked from the back. Halleck Tustenuggee and his warriors retreated, and the United States Army burned the camp. The battle left one soldier dead and four wounded on the United States side and one soldier killed and one captured on the Seminole side. A few days later, Halleck Tustenuggee, two of his wives, and two of his children voluntarily surrendered to Worth at [[Coleman, Florida|Warm Springs]]. On August 14, 1842, Worth declared the [[Second Seminole War]] over.{{sfn |Hatch|2012|p=254}}