The Cherokee Strip

To commemorate

the Opening

of

The Cherokee Strip

September 16, 1893

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 77 and State Line Road, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 77.

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Cherokee Strip

September 11, 1893

Thousands of Americans gathered in this township preparing to make the run for homesteads in the Cherokee Strip, a tract of land 58 miles wide, opening 6,500,000 acres for White settlement bought from the Cherokee Nation by the ...

Cherokee Allotments

Newkirk owes its existence not simply to the opening of the Cherokee Outlet to homesteaders, but to the twenty-one allotments taken by the Cherokees in Kay County prior to the opening. The Outlet comprised eight million acres of prairie which ...

Cherokee Villages

Along the south side of the Little Tennessee River for about thirteen miles were ten villages of the Overhill Cherokees. They were Mialaque, Tuskegee, Tomotley, Toquo, Tennessee, Chota, Citico, Halfway Town, Chilhowee, Talassee. White encroachments began upon this site in ...

Mountain Cliffs - Cherokee Geology

[Left-Side of Text]: Mountain Cliffs

As you walk along this path, you see piles of rock (sandstone) built up in layers. It is a hard rock that forms the cap of Lookout Mountain and the other ranges of the Cumberland Plateau. ...

National Historic Landmark-Cherokee County Courthouse

National Historic Landmark- Cherokee County Courthouse

This 2-story brick structure served as the council house of the Cherokee National Council from 1869 until 1907, when Oklahoma became a state.

The Italianate building stands as a symbol of the Cherokee's ability to adjust ...

Cherokee Boundary (1767)

[Front]:

In 1766-67 S.C. & N.C. negotiated with the Cherokee to establish a boundary between Indian land to the west and new settlement to the east. This north-south line ran past this point to N.C. and on to Va. In S.C. ...

Cherokee Control

Throughout the spring and summer of 1838 Principal Chief John Ross and a group of Cherokee delegates negotiated with the United States War Department to take control of conducting the parties west. Just as the first groups departed under United ...

Cherokee Syllabary

By the beginning of the 19th century, many Cherokee had adopted many white ways of living. They build American type farms, wore American style clothes, developed American style systems of government and began buying African slaves to work on plantations. ...

Cherokee Foothills

National Scenic Byway

This location (Greenville/Spartanburg County Line) marks the eastern boundary between the Cherokee Nation and the Province of South Carolina from the end of the Cherokee War (1761) until 1777. The local community, Gowensville, is named for John "Buck" ...