- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of a statue of Sequoyah, Gordon County, Georgia, 1976]
- Date of Original:
- 1976
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Georgia
Arts--Georgia--Gordon County
Cities and towns--Georgia--Gordon County
Parks--Georgia--Gordon County - People:
- Sequoyah, 1770?-1843--Statues
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, 34.50336, -84.87575
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- north of Calhoun, 1976. Statue to the Indian, Sequoyah, located in a small park at the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Ga. Highway 225. The Calhoun Woman's Club was the force behind getting the statue. W. Laurens Hillhouse was responsible for the rock work. Adjacent to this statue is an arch built of native rock which was erected to honor the memory of Civil War and World War I soldiers. The Calhoun Woman's Club and Mr. Hillhouse were involved in its construction, too. The above were completed ca. 1925.
2003/06/17: The plague on the statue of Sequoyah reads "Originator of the Cherokee Indian alphabet. Two miles east of this spot is New Echota, the last Indian capital in Georgia, where Sequoyah lived. Here was published the "Cherokee Phoenix" only newspaper edited in an Indian language. Indian cemetery is at New Echota where was signed important treaty ceding lands to the United States." - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor083a
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor083a
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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