Yikes, I'll try . It will be this afternoon. Nancy On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Tonya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nancy, >                   Could you post this 640 land experiment site for all of > us to see. >                                                              Thank you, >                                                                 Tonya > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nancy McGinty" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 5:18 AM > Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] land cessions > > > Joyce, Thanks so much for this information.  I am going to forward you > a link to a webpage that I have been looking at.  It refers to the 640 > acres experiment. > Nancy McG > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Joyce G. Reece <[email protected]> > wrote: >> The story of Fort Armistead has been in several newspapers including the >> Knoxville Sentinal. >> >> The story is this: >> >> In 1817 a treaty was signed that ceded land that was, in part, to become >> McMinn and Monroe counties. The surveyor party was instructed to begin at >> Jolly's Island (now Hiwassee Island) at the mouth of the Hiwassee River, >> east to North Carolina state line following the river. When the surveyor >> party reached the Cherokee village of Savannah, which is where current day >> hwy 411 crosses the Hiwassee, they stopped at the village to ask for >> directions. The Ridge, who was named this because of his habit of > traveling >> along a trail that ran the top of these mountains told them a different > way >> to go, which they did. This trail left Savannah went up the end of Starr >> Mountain at Gee Creek, along the top of the mountain to White Cliff, off >> the mountain to Rural Vale (all modern day place names), on to the area > just >> near the Unicoi Gap, back up the mountains to the Indian Boundary (now the >> camping area), off the end of Flats Mtn down to Citico Creek then down > this >> creek to the mouth where it enters the Little Tennessee. This surveyor >> error left a swath of land that varied in width of apx 8 to 25 miles > between >> the survey line and the NC state line. Because of this many Cherokee >> families who resided in this area were left where they were until the >> Removal in 1838. >> >> Fort Armistead, which shows on the 1820-30 section map of the Hiwassee >> District/Monroe County, was a small village and supply point for the >> Cherokee until the Removal began, then it acted as a gathering point for >> families headed west. After the Removal the family who owned the land paid >> little attention to the village and it's future historical significance > but >> did maintain its integrity. Now, within the last 2 years the integrity of >> the site is still intact and in the hands of the Cherokee National Forest. >> The site is being guarded with the intensity it deserves and big plans are >> in the works for it. A visitors center is planned adjacent to the village >> site. Some excavations are being done but in the most part it is more >> guarded than anything else. Anyone who enters the area has to be cleared >> thru security. Chad Smith recently paid a visit to the site. It is said >> to be the best preserved village of its kind in the world. Thank goodness >> it is in a place where it will never be flooded by a TVA impoundment like >> the Overhill Villages often were...such as Chota, Tenasi, Citico and many >> others. >> >> Historians of this area, especially those of us interested in the Cherokee >> aspect of this areas history have been overjoyed with this find. Monroe >> County Archivist, Nelle Jo Stakely had a big hand in helping the >> archeologist do the the historical research on this. I hope I'm not > pushing >> things too much to say that she and I discussed and researched the above >> stated aspects concerning Fort Armistead and how it all came to be. >> >> >> >> >> Joyce Gaston Reece >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "myra reidy" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 7:17 PM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] land cessions >> >>> >>> >>> Would you please tell us more about the "finds" in Monroe County? It >>> sounds very interesting. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:43:58 -0500 >>>> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] land cessions >>>> >>>> The land CESSION would have been the Hiwassee Purchase or the Treaty of >>>> 1817. This ceeded the land that is the section between the Little >>>> Tennessee >>>> River on the north, the big Tennessee on the west, the Hiwassee on the >>>> south >>>> and the NC line on the east. The surveyors did not survey the eastern >>>> line >>>> correctly and left off several miles on the eastern line so part Monroe >>>> remained in Cherokee hands until the Removal in 1838. Thus the reason > for >>>> the huge archealogical find in the form of Fort Armistead in eastern >>>> Monroe >>>> Co. >>>> >>>> Joyce Gaston Reece >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------- >>>> From: "Nancy McGinty" <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:50 AM >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] land cessions >>>> >>>> > 'Siyo >>>> > >>>> > Thanks for the reply, but I may have been asking for the wrong thing. >>>> > There was an attempt to "civilize" or make citizens of some of the >>>> > Cherokees in 1817. They had a choice to apply for 640 acres of land >>>> > in Tennessee, Georgia and maybe Alabama and become US citizens or go >>>> > to Arkansas. I will go to the National Archives in Georgia next week, >>>> > but am not quite sure of how to look this up. Do you have any ideas >>>> > on this? >>>> > Nancy McG >>>> > >>>> > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> 'siyo, >>>> >> >>>> >> http://www.tngenweb.org/cessions/ >>>> >> >>>> >> Sgi, >>>> >> >>>> >> Nill >>>> >> -=- >>>> >> >>>> >> Nancy McGinty wrote: >>>> >>> Can anyone refer me to a place where I might read more about the > land >>>> >>> cessions of 1817. 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