I've visited New Echota and The Chief Vann House many times. I grew up in Rome, Georgia where the Chieftains Museum is. That's the home of Cherokee Chief Major Ridge. My beautiful wife has some Cherokee blood. The first Democrat President, Andrew Jackson, was responsible for the "Trail of Tears" so how could it be PC to be angered and against the evil thing that Democrat did. My Father-in-Law grew up in Spring place near The Chief Vann House. His older sister was friends with the daughter of the Doctor that lived there in the 1930's and had several sleepovers in that house.
I know Jackson was a favorite son of Tennessee but the peaceful civilized and clearly assimilated Cherokee did not deserve what he did.
New Echota Historic Site Photos
Chief Vann House
Yes these were two homes of Cherokee chieftains. Joseph Vann went to Oklahoma Indian Territory, prior to the main Cherokee Removal with a few hundred Cherokee men, women, children, their African-American slaves (including 200 of his own) and horses aboard a flotilla of flat boats to Webbers Falls at the falls of the Arkansas River. There Vann developed a plantation and directed slaves to construct a replica of his lost Georgia mansion. This building was later destroyed during the American Civil War. The Cherokee homes were of the same style and design of the white settlers who lived and farmed the same way. Moravian missionaries were fully accepted by the Cherokee Tribe and some went to prison rather than desert them during their legal battles even up to the Supreme Court.
Destination Rome?
Sorry I couldnt resist.
I know Rome.....I did a city wide survey there in the late 70s for months and we had an office downtown in an old warehouse....
One of my best pals ever lived between Menlo and Trion and raised Simmnetal cattle..he died a few years back from alcohol abuse sadly
I bought a bulldog in Summerville four years ago..a Johnson dog
My kids went to Alpine over in Mentone for nine years and wed drive down to Atlanta so wifey could shop and then stay in that warehouse hotel downtown Rome and go to the restaurants on Main Street...and take him over to Alpine early for check in
It was fun
The basement was supposedly haunted in the old hotel
My offfice manager used to be a booking agent at William Morris here in Music City and he handled Lynyrd Skynyrd for many years and hed book that open air Skynyrd show at Romes riverfront Park
And Id help and wed take tickets and do meet and greet etc
So many pretty women..
Its was unbelievable lGeorgia being full of peaches
My wife is part Cherokee...she has a few telltale characteristics still...on my homepage...her gg grandmother....a Lannom....her aunt documented it
Jackson was a man of his era and we are folly to judge them beyond that..
I think the Creeks got it worst
Im a Pocahontas descendent via several FFV lines but I din think I have any recent native infusion
I could be wrong
I really like Rome.