New Echota Cherokee National Capital

The sprawling town of New Town which had Stood here since 1819 was designated the seat Of government for the Cherokee Nation in A legislative act of 1825 and it was renamed New Echota for a former principal town in Tennessee. In its short history New Echota Was the site of the first Indian language Newspaper office, a court case which carried To the U.S. Supreme Court, one of the earliest Experiments in national self-government for An Indian tribe, the signing of a treaty which relinquished Cherokee claims to lands east ofthe Mississippi, and the assembly of Indians for removal west.

GHM 064-29 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1962

Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.

Original page, with additional info, here.

Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.