- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- New Echota Cherokee National Capital historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Gordon County
Cherokee Indians--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, 34.50336, -84.87575
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Off Ga. 225 at New Echota parking area, N.E. of Calhoun
Text of marker: "NEW ECHOTA Cherokee National Capital. The sprawling town of New Town which had stood here since 1819 was designated the seat of government for the Cherokee Nation in a legislative act of 1825 and it was renamed New Echota for a former principal town in Tennessee. In its short history New Echota was the site of the first Indian language newspaper office, a court case which carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the earliest experiments in national self-government for an Indian tribe, the signing of a treaty which relinquished Cherokee claims to lands east of the Mississippi, and the assembly of Indians for removal west. 064-29 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1962" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_new-echota-cherokee-national-capital
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_new-echota-cherokee-national-capital
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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