- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of the home of Reverend Samuel A. Worcester, New Echota, Gordon County, Georgia, not before 1962]
- Date of Original:
- 1962/1994
- Subject:
- Architecture--Georgia--New Echota
Landscape--Georgia--New Echota
Houses--Georgia--New Echota
Post office buildings--Georgia--New Echota
Vandiver, S. Ernest (Samuel Ernest), 1918- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, 34.50336, -84.87575
United States, Georgia, Gordon County, New Town, 34.53064, -84.90578 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- New Echota, 1962 or after. Home of Reverend Samuel A. Worcester. Reverend Worcester was a missionary to the Cherokee Indians from the Congregationalist Church under the American Board of Foreign Missions. A post office was also located in the house. In 1825 New Echota was designated the capital of the Cherokee Nation. It is located northeast of Calhoun. In 1962 Governor Ernest Vandiver dedicated the restored Worcester home. In 1976 the restored village of New Echota was named a National Historic Landmark.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor117
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor117
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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