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Photo Gallery: Chief Wauhatchie's Home
Note: the photo of the house below is located
on approximately the site of Chief Wauhatchie's home.
Marker text:
Just East of the railroad from here and 200 yards North of
Wauhatchie Spring and Branch, stood the home of Wauhatchie, Chief of the
Cherokees. In the War of 1812 he served in a company of Cherokees under
Capt. John Brown, Col. Gideon Morgan and Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, fighting
the Creeks from Jan. 27 to April 11, 1814. Old records say "Wauhatchie,
severly wounded March 27th, - lost his horse." He was a signer of the
Hiawassee Purchase of July 8, 1817, is listed in the U.S. Census of the
Cherokee Nation in 1835 and followed the "Trail of Tears" westward when the
Cherokees were moved from Georgia.
041-2 Georgia Historical Commission 1955
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