Cherokee Chief Bowles

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Cherokee Chief

Bowles was killed on July 16, 1839 while leading 800 Indians of various tribes in battle against 500 Texans. The last engagement between Cherokees and whites in Texas.

Marker can be reached from Jett Lane.

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Cherokee Exodus from Texas

Driven from Eastern states by white settlers, Cherokee Indians migrated to the East Texas area, becoming established by 1820. In 1822, they unsuccessfully sought title to their land from Mexico.

The years following were ones of an increasingly uneasy truce for ...

History of Cherokee

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By 1805, half-blood Chickasaw leaders George and Levi Colbert were operating inns and a river ferry nearby on the Natchez Trace. The Chickasaw Indian Agency was moved to Agency Creek, now Malone Creek, (3.8 miles east) in 1825. Caney ...

Cherokee County Veterans Monument

World War I

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Allen, Loyd •

Bobo, Jesse •

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Camp, Oscar •

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Gallman, Richard •

Godfrey Jay Bee •

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Hames, Broadus B. •

Hamrick, ...

Cherokee County

Cherokee County has a rich and varied history. Spanish and French explorers of the Seventeenth Century found Tejas and Hasinai Indians living in this area, and Spanish missions were established in the region.

Driven out of the United States, the Cherokee ...

Cherokee County Courthouse

This courthouse, the fourth to serve the citizens of Cherokee County, was built in 1940-41 with the assistance of the Federal Works Progress Administration. Designed by the architectural firm of Gill & Bennett, the modern structure is built of native ...

Cherokee Indian Trail Tree

The Native Americans bent saplings to grow into living “signposts” for traveling Indians. These living markers pointed the way to a water source, a suitable river crossing or a main trail.

Marker is on St. Anns Road.

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Cherokee

First placer camp in East Belt section of Mother Lode. Gold discovered here in 1853 by Scott brothers, descendants of Cherokee Indians. Scars of placer “diggings” in every little arroyo in Cherokee Valley healed over by Mother Nature later replaced ...