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Tallapoosas were the 2nd largest Indian nation trading w/SC

Source: The Southern Frontier #86

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The Upper Creeks were known to the Carolinians for many years by the names of their three geographical divisions: Talapoosa, Coosa or Abikha, and Alabama. By one account of about 1715, 'the Tallibooses consist of 11 Towns and 563 men;'103 a nearly contemporaneous estimate was 13 towns, 636 men, 2,343 souls.104 [Note 103: C.O. Maps, N.A.C. General, 7. In the present Tallapoosa and Elmore Counties, Ala.]  [Note 104: C.O. 5 :1265, Q 201. D' Artaguiette in 1721 listed twelve towns of 'Talapouches,' [Talapoosa] with 715 men, and eight of 'Alibamons,' with 560 men, but his classification was not exactly the same as the English, and made no separate list of the Coosa towns. See Baron Marc de Villiers, in J Durn. De la societe des Americanistes de Paris, n.s., XIV. 127-40.]
After the Ochese this was the largest Indian 'nation' in the Carolina trading system. The Talapoosa villages were strung along the valley of the Okfuskee or Tallapoosa River from their chief village, and the foremost western Carolina factory, at Great Okfuskee, well down to the forks of the Alabama.