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New Echota - A Virtual TourNew Echota, GA The historic site of New Echota, Georgia is just 1/2 mile east of Interstate 75 near Calhoun in Gordon county, Georgia. There is a small historic marker on the interstate to mark the exit (exit 317). This photograph shows the northern front of the property by the parking lot and the highway (Georgia 225). The Cherokee National Council began gathering in Newtown, Georgia (where the Coosawattee and Conasauga rivers join) in the fall months of 1819. On November 12th, 1825 the settlement became the capital of the Cherokee nation, when a resolution was adopted to change the name to New Echota (named after Chota, Tennessee). In an 1835 Treaty with the Cherokee, the federal government took all of the Cherokee land east of the Mississippi river and forced the Cherokee people to move westward. This sorrowful journey is known as the Trail of Tears. |
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"The time will come... when the few remnants of our once happy and improving Nation will be viewed by posterity with curious and gazing interest as relics of a brave and noble race... Perhaps, only here and there a solitary being, walking, 'as a ghost over the ashes of his fathers,' to remind a stranger that such a race once existed."
-Elias Boudinot - November 25th, 1836
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