The famed “Canoe Fight” took place on November 12, 1813 near where Randon's Creek empties into the Alabama River. Sam Dale, Jeremiah Austill, and James Smith, aboard a canoe paddled by a black man named Caesar, met and defeated in a brief but vicious fight a larger group of Red Stick warriors aboard another canoe in the middle of the river.

The exact location of the Canoe Fight is unknown. An historic marker commemorating the event stands on Madison Road about three miles east of Gainestown in south Clarke County (GPS
coordinates 31.445267, -87.644307).