There seemed to have to be a lot of suicide going on to provide us modern americans with an interesting tourist attraction: Here's two....

GADSDEN
Noccalula Falls is named for a Creek Indian princess, who according to legend jumped to her death off the edge of the water fall because she was in love with a warrior in her tribe, but was being forced to marry the chief of another tribe.

Rock City:
Lover's Leap

According to folklore, a young brave named Sautee fell deeply in love with Nacoochee, a beautiful Cherokee maiden. Nacoochee loved Sautee as well, but their tribes were engaged in a bitter feud. The two finally ran off together, but Sautee was soon captured and thrown from from the tip of Lovers' Leap. The dispairing Nacoochee quickly followed her lover, leaping to her own death far below.

 

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