United States, Tennessee, Bradley County, 35.15411, -84.8596Schroedl, Gerald F.1980This photograph is of a scale cabin reconstruction at the Red Clay site at Red Clay State Park in Bradley County, Tennessee. Federal Period Cherokees did not use machine rounded logs or saddle notch in the construction of their log cabins as was used in this reconstruction. They would have cut their own logs and used wither dovetail, half-dovetail, or 'V' notching for their cabins. By 1832, the state of Georgia had refused Cherokees the right to hold council unless the meeting involved treating for land cessions. The Cherokees decided to move their capital from New Echota, Georgia to Red Clay, Tennessee because the state of Tennessee did not prohibit the Cherokees from assembling. Thus, Red Clay became the seat of the Cherokee government from 1832 until forced removal in 1838. The Cherokees carried hot coals from their council fire at Red Clay on the Trail of Tears.Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries in 2001, as part of GALILEO, funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.text/htmlimage/jpegmm062engPhotograph held by the Frank H. McClung Museum, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, McClung Museum Photographic Collection, photograph mm062.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Cherokee IndiansCherokee artAntiquitiesArtRed Clay Site (Tenn.)Log cabinsHistoric sites[Photograph of a scale cabin reconstruction at Red Clay State Park, Bradley County, Tennessee, taken circa 1980s] / [by Gerald F. Schroedl]StillImage