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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Cherokee, North Carolina
Location of Cherokee, North Carolina
► Swain County (62) ► Graham County (9) ► Haywood County (36) ► Jackson County (10) ► Macon County (26) ► Blount County, Tennessee (45) ► Sevier County, Tennessee (77)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | “We meet today to dedicate the mountains, streams, and forests to the service of the American People.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
September 2, 1940
The Rockefeller Memorial . . . — — Map (db m20022) HM |
| | Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a sanctuary. This is one of the few places in the eastern United States where animal populations can live, propagate, and die with relatively little influence from humans. Plants flourish in untold numbers and . . . — — Map (db m20057) HM |
| | Look out across the Smoky Mountains landscape.
How did this land come to be?
They carefully got all the mud and they laid it out on the rocks. And when it was dry enough, Grandfather threw it out into the water, and it became land. And the . . . — — Map (db m43855) HM |
| | According to oral tradition, the Blue Clan knew about a plant with a blue flower that was used to heal children’s diseases.
(Cherokee language translation)
Clan Facts:
Your clan came from your mother. People of the same clan could . . . — — Map (db m134823) HM |
| | From here you can see the Qualla Boundary, the 56,000-acre home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. It borders Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway. The Cherokee originally held over 140,000 square miles in parts of eight . . . — — Map (db m150379) HM |
| | [Marker Front]:
Cherokee Indian Reservation
Established by United
States for the Eastern
Band of Cherokee after
the removal of 1838.
[Marker Reverse]:
(Leaving) Cherokee
Reservation
Established by United . . . — — Map (db m11526) HM |
| | This park is dedicated to all members of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians who served honorably in the Armed Forces of this Great Nation, and especially to those who died in the effort and to Charles George, the only member of the Eastern Band . . . — — Map (db m12929) HM |
| | You hardly ever left a tree of any size standing and all the little 'uns was torn down.
Raymer Brackin
Standing her in 1910 you would have seen a far different landscape than today. You might have seen the Champion Fibre Company . . . — — Map (db m107604) HM |
| | People in the Deer Clan were recognized as fast runners. They often served as messengers between towns.
(Cherokee language translation)
Clan Facts:
Clans took care of the Cherokee law regarding murder. If you were killed, your . . . — — Map (db m134822) HM |
| | Methodist. Maintained by Holston Conference for Cherokee c.1840-1885. School established 1850. Missionary's house Stands 50 yards north. — — Map (db m12719) HM |
| | Commercial logging became widespread in the Smokies around 1880, about fifty years before the establishment of the national park. Loggers using hand tools an animal teams took maple, poplar, cherry, walnut, and other choice woods.
Mechanized . . . — — Map (db m20043) HM |
| | Rainbow and brown trout, stonerollers, hogsuckers, sculpins, river chubs, and other fish live here in the lower reaches of the Oconaluftee River. But these are just a few of over 85 species found in the Smokies. The park's streams offer multiple . . . — — Map (db m107602) HM |
| | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization MAB
Program on Man and the Biosphere
By Decision of the Bureau of the international coordinating council of the program on man and the biosphere, duly authorized to that effect by . . . — — Map (db m20061) HM |
| | Shaconage, the Cherokee name for this area, means "land of blue smoke." A smoke-like natural bluish haze, and mist-like clouds that rise following a rainstorm, provide the inspiration for the name Smoky Mountains. During the growing season, the . . . — — Map (db m20058) HM |
| | Few Places in North America sustain a greater variety of life than the Great Smoky Mountains. The forests, streams, and meadows here support more than 100 types of trees, 58 kinds of fish, some 1,500 flowering plants, more than 200 bird species, and . . . — — Map (db m20053) HM |
| |
Ani-Gilohi—(Cherokee language translation)
People in this clan wore their hair long. They walked with confidence and were often leaders.
(Cherokee language translation)
CLAN FACTS: Throughout the large . . . — — Map (db m73920) HM |
| | The high, rounded mountain in front of you is Clingmans Dome (6,643 feet elevation), the highest mountain in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the highest in Tennessee, and the third highest in the eastern United States. It bears the name of . . . — — Map (db m67901) HM |
| | You didn't make it without corn....everyone ate cornmeal, sometimes two and three times a day. -George Moore, local resident
For 50 years, nearby farmers brought their corn and wheat to Mingus Mill, built in 1886. The miller usually . . . — — Map (db m111965) HM |
| | Clingmans Dome is a sacred mountain to the Cherokees, where the Magic Lake was once seen. The Great Spirit told the Cherokees that, “if they love me, if they love all their brothers and sisters, and if they love the animals of the earth, when . . . — — Map (db m43851) HM |
| | "To preserve and perpetuate the history, culture, and stories of the Cherokee people."
To accomplish this mission, the museum maintains a permanent exhibit, extensive artifact collection, archives, education programs, artist series, and . . . — — Map (db m134805) HM |
| | Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1880-1891. Led incorporation of Band & centralization of Tribal government on his property, here. — — Map (db m73919) HM |
| | Oconaluftee Indian Village is an authentic replica of a Cherokee Indian Town of 1750. Here you will see life as it was carried on 200 years ago. Ancient arts of the Red Man such as basket weaving, wood-carving, finger-weaving, pottery, weapon making . . . — — Map (db m96642) HM |
| | Wodi refers to the paint made from red ochre. In the legend of monster Stoneman, a lump of this paint remained when the monster burned up. When the medicine man painted people with it, their wishes came true: to be a great hunter, or warrior, or . . . — — Map (db m150430) HM |
| | The rugged terrain of the Smoky Mountains determined patterns of human settlement. Residents of the Smokies - be they native Cherokees or European emigrants and their descendants - gravitated to valleys or coves. Settlement was confined to areas far . . . — — Map (db m20054) HM |
| | Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc. was founded in 1946, with the goal of promoting the development, production, and marketing of unique and authentic Cherokee arts and crafts. Known locally as the "co-op," Qualla Arts and Crafts is one of the . . . — — Map (db m140706) HM |
| | This statue honoring Sequoyah. The Cherokee genius who invented the Cherokee Alphabet. was sculpted from a single great California Sequoia (Redwood) Log which was donated and shipped by Georgia-Pacific.
This is sculptor Peter wolf Toth's 63rd . . . — — Map (db m19736) HM |
| | You are standing alongside the Appalachian Trail, one of the longest continuous footpaths in the world. The trail winds more than 2,150 miles through 14 states. Few stretches are more remote or difficult than the section through the Great Smokies. . . . — — Map (db m20064) HM |
| | (Side One):
The Great Smokies: scenic, diverse, culturally rich.
The scenic view here are well known; lesser known is the abundance of life. The Smokies' rugged topography creates a diversity of species found in few other places in North . . . — — Map (db m20066) HM |
| | At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest mountain in Great Smokey Mountains National Park and is one of the highest peaks in the eastern United States.
An observation tower at the summit takes you above the treetops for a panoramic view. . . . — — Map (db m43856) HM |
| | William H. Thomas led Confederate "Legion of Indians & Mountaineers." Cherokee companies raised nearby in 1862. — — Map (db m12714) HM |
| | In 1838, the United States government deported more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Thousands of Cherokees perished during . . . — — Map (db m73923) HM |
| | In front of you is a very special place - part of the park's "backcountry," a place without roads, wires, houses...
Here you - or your children, or theirs - may walk for days, largely free of the sights, sounds, and smells of the everyday world. . . . — — Map (db m20049) HM |
| | The wild potato refers to a native plant whose root is a good food source, also known as the Jerusalem artichoke. Some oral traditions say there were originally fourteen clans, including the Savannah and Wild Holly, whose members all became part of . . . — — Map (db m134821) HM |
| | The Blue Ridge Parkway is a collection of diverse and inspiring places. The 469-mile road links Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Like a long beautiful ribbon connecting distinctive gems, the Parkway joins high . . . — — Map (db m150299) HM |
| | The Wolf Clan was known for its medicine people and its warriors.
(Cherokee language translation)
Clan Masks:
In the early twentieth century, Cherokee artists began carving masks representing the clans. These also symbolized . . . — — Map (db m134820) HM |
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