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Cagle House. / 34.39000°N 84.43556°W / 34.39000; -84.43556. The Cagle House is a historic house in an area known as Cagletown, Jasper, Georgia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 2002. It is located on Waleska Highway 108, approximately 11⁄2 miles west of Georgia 5/515.
Website. cherokeega.com. Cherokee County is located in the US state of Georgia. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 266,620. [ 2][ 1] The county seat is Canton. [ 3] The county Board of Commissioners is the governing body, with members elected to office. Cherokee County is included in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.
Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3, 1832, and named Cass County, after General Lewis Cass (1782–1866), Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan, [3] who was instrumental in the removal of Native Americans from the area.
James Vann (c. 1762–64 – February 19, 1809) was a Cherokee leader, one of the triumvirate with Major Ridge and Charles R. Hicks, who led the Upper Towns of East Tennessee and North Georgia as part of the ᎤᏪᏘ ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏰᎵ (Uwet Tsalag Ayetl or Old Cherokee Nation ). He was the son of ᏩᎵ (Wali) Vann and Indian trader Joseph ...
Keithsburg was established in the mid nineteenth-century along the railroad northeast of Canton. The community was named after the local Keith family and its Keith Plantation, one of the oldest plantations in Cherokee County. During the Civil War, the Keith family buried its valuables and suspended its food in trees in order to hide it from the ...
Waleska is located in northwestern Cherokee County at (34.317968, -84.552951 State Routes 140 and 108 intersect in the center of town. SR 140 leads southeast 7 miles (11 km) to Canton , the county seat, and west 25 miles (40 km) to Adairsville .
Canton is located near the center of Cherokee County at 34°13′38″N84°29′41″W / 34.22722°N 84.49472°W (34.227307, −84.494727). [ 6 ] The city lies just north of Holly Springs and south of Ball Ground. Interstate 575 passes through the eastern side of the city, with access from exits 14 through 20.
The Cherokee Heritage Center ( Cherokee: Ꮳꮃꭹ Ꮷꮎꮣꮄꮕꮣ Ꭰᏸꮅ) is a non-profit historical society and museum campus that seeks to preserve the historical and cultural artifacts, language, and traditional crafts of the Cherokee. The Heritage center also hosts the central genealogy database and genealogy research center for the ...