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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BRI_fort-mountain_Chatsworth-GA.html
The mountain to the west is Fort Mountain (Elevation 2,840'), which is part of the Cohutta Mountain Range. "Cohutta" is an English translation of a Cherokee word. It means "a shed roof supported on poles" and describes how the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV78_mystery-shrouds-fort-mountain_Chatsworth-GA.html
The trail to the north of this site leads to the mysterious and prehistoric wall of loose rocks from which Fort Mountain takes its name. Many generations of explorers, archaeologists, geologists, historians and sight-seers have wondered about the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMMA_old-federal-road_Chatsworth-GA.html
The route veering southeastward is a remnant of the Old Federal Road, northwest Georgia's earliest vehicular way and the first thoroughfare linking Tennessee and Georgia across the Cherokee Nation. Permission to open the highway was granted by the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMM8_old-federal-road_Chatsworth-GA.html
This highway follows closely the course of the Old Federal Road, the first vehicular and postal route to link Georgia and Tennessee across the Cherokee Nation. Informal permission to use the thoroughfare was granted by the Indians in 1803 and conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMM2_forks-of-the-old-federal-road_Chatsworth-GA.html
The Old Federal Road, leading across the Indian Country from the Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens, branched at this point toward Knoxville and Nashville. The right turn led northward into Tennessee via Chatsworth and Tennga, while the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMM1_fort-gilmer_Chatsworth-GA.html
One hundred yards east is the site of Fort Gilmer, built in 1838 to garrison U.S. troops ordered to enforce the removal from this region of the last Cherokee Indians under terms of the New Echota treaty of 1833.
One of seven such forts erected…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI4G_de-soto-in-georgia_Chatsworth-GA.html
In May 1539 Hernando de Soto landed in Florida with over 600 people, 220 horses and mules, and a herd of swine reserved for famine. Fired by his success in Pizarro`s conquest of Peru, De Soto had been granted the rights, by the King of Spain, to e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCL4_old-holly-creek-p-o_Chatsworth-GA.html
May 16, 1864. Brig. Gen. J.D. Cox's Div., 23d A.C., [US] having crossed the Conasauga River at Hogan's Ford, 2 mi. S. of Tilton, camped at or near Holly Creek P.O., in this vicinity.
May 17. Learning that 20th Corps troops [US] had usurped the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC7L_old-federal-road_Chatsworth-GA.html
The earliest vehicular and postal route from northwest Georgia was the Federal Road, which led from the southeast Cherokee boundary, in the direction of Athens, Georgia to Tennessee; a Y-shaped thoroughfare, it forked at Ramhurst toward Knoxville …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC7D_chief-vann-house_Chatsworth-GA.html
Built of locally made brick in 1804, this house, the finest in the Cherokee Nation, was the home a Town Chief, James Vann, son of a Scotch trader, Clement Vann, and his wife, a Cherokee chieftain's daughter. Around his home were several of his bus…