- Collection:
- Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842
- Title:
- [Diagram of Tellico Blockhouse excavations, American Federal period trading and military post from 1794-1807, Lower Little Tennessee River] / [by Steven Ahler]
- Creator:
- Ahler, Steven R.
- Publisher:
- Photograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, photograph mm047.
- Date of Original:
- 1794/1807
- Subject:
- Cherokee Indians--Antiquities
Salvage archaeology
Historic sites
Military bases - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Monroe County, 35.44265, -84.25279
- Medium:
- diagrams
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- This is a diagram of the Tellico Blockhouse excavations. The Tellico Blockhouse was constructed in 1794-95 adjacent to the earlier Fort Loudoun at the confluence of the Tellico and Little Tennessee Rivers in what is presently Monroe County as a federal outpost. In 1805 federal officials and Overhill Cherokees negotiated a treaty at the Tellico Blockhouse which moved the federal agency south to the mouth of the Hiawassee. By 1807 the federal government abandoned Tellico and moved the rest of its agency to the Hiawassee River post, the new center of the Overhill Cherokee settlement. Excavations of the Tellico Blockhouse were conducted by the University of Tennessee from 1972-1974 in anticipation of the flooding of the lower Little Tennessee River by the Tellico Dam Reservoir. Excavations of the Blockhouse were conducted under contract with the National Park Service and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Principal investigator, Alfred K. Guthe. Field Director, Richard R. Polhemus.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2000, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. - Local Identifier:
- mm047
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm047
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm047#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_zlna_mm047/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 page/leaf
- Holding Institution:
- Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture
- Rights:
-
