Historical Marker

New Echota Cherokee National Capital

Off Ga. 225 at New Echota parking area, N. E. of Calhoun · N.E. of Calhoun · Gordon

Georgia marker

Inscription

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 of the Mississippi, and the assembly of Indians for removal west.

064-29 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1962

Location

AddressOff Ga. 225 at New Echota parking area, N. E. of Calhoun
CityN.E. of Calhoun
CountyGordon
StateGeorgia
Coordinates34.503360, -84.875750

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