Downtown Hayesville, NC (7 minutes from the cabin)
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The Quanassee Path
The 2 mile Quanassee Path provides accurate historical information about the Cherokee who lived in the region. It shares the history and culture of the Cherokee people at five sites: the Cherokee Homestead Exhibit, Clay County Historical & Arts Museum, Cherokee Cultural Center, Spikebuck Mound/Quanassee Town site, and Cherokee Botanical Sanctuary.
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Cherokee History Trail To get The Quanassee Path brochures click 1 and 2
The Cherokee and their ancestors have called Western North Carolina home for more than 10,000 years. A glance of their ancient history and the Cherokee way of life can be seeing at this reconstructed 17th-18th century homestead (summer and winter house.)
Clay County Museum
To learn about the Cherokee heritage visit the Clay County Museum.
21 Davis Loop, Hayesville NC
Handwoven baskets, pottery, instruments, weaponry, and clothing influence of the Cherokee in western North Carolina can be seeing at the museum.
Quanassee Town Site
Visit the public plaza surrounded by the homesteads and gardens of the hundreds of Cherokee who resided in Quanassee during the 1500s and 1600s.
Cherokee Botanical Sanctuary
Walk along Town Creek, under a canopy of old hardwood tress and learn about the native plans that were utilized by the Cherokee for food, shelter, fiber, medicine, ceremony, weaponry, home furnishings, household utensils, light & heat, transportation, and personal adornment.
Old Jail Museum:
The old brick structure on the hillside at the entrance to downtown Hayesville, contains elements of local history and art. Built in 1912, it was used as the county jail until 1972. You will find Indian artifacts from excavation made near Hiawassee River, a replica of Dr.. Killan's turn of the century office with many of his original medical implements. Open from June through Labor Day, Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM. It is located on the left side of US HWY 64 Business as one approaches downtown Hayesville.
Clay County Historical Courthouse
This 1889 building is located in the center of the square in Hayesville. It is an example of Venacular Italianate architecture, listed on the National registry of Historic Buildings.
- Vernacular architecture is an architectural style that is designed based on local needs, availability of construction materials and reflecting local traditions. At least originally, vernacular architecture did not use formally-schooled architects, but relied on the design skills and tradition of local builders. However, since the late 19th century many professional architects have worked in versions of this style.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park
A few hours from the cabin, but if you are interested in History this could be an option for the day. In north Georgia and south Tennessee, Union and Confederate armies clashed during the fall of 1863 in some of the hardest fighting of the Civil War. The prize was Chattanooga, a key rail center and the gateway to the heart of the Confederacy. In September 1863 the Union Army of the Cumberland was routed at the Battle of Chickamauga and retreated into Chattanooga. Over the next two months Confederate forces besieged the trapped Union army. Finally, in late November 1863 the Union army won a series of battles around Chattanooga and drove the Confederates south into Georgia. For more information click here
THE CHEROHALA SKYWAY (1:20 from cabin)
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The 100 million dollars road has been designated a National Scenic Byway. The Cherohala Skyway crosses
through the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee and the Nantahala National
Forest in North Carolina. The Skyway connects Tellico Plains, Tennessee, with Robbinsville,
North Carolina, and is about 40+ miles long. The Cherohala Skyway is a wide,
paved 2-laned road maintained by the Tennessee Department of Transportation and
the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The elevations range from 900
feet above sea level at the Tellico River in Tennessee to over 5400 feet above
sea level at the Tennessee-North Carolina state line at Haw Knob.
For more information click hereThe Top Ten Asheville War Sites (1:28 minutes away)
Such as Vance Birthplace, Smith Mc-Dowell house, Riverside Cemetery, and Connemara
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TN CIVIL WAR TRAILS (Monroe County)
Tennessee was very important during the Civil War. Any invasion of Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi certainly would have to come through Tennessee.
The new Tennessee Civil War Trails Program has begun with installation of interpretive signs in the Franklin area and in Blountville. More than a dozen signs in Columbia and Franklin outline a critical phase of Confederate Gen. John B. Hood's 1864 campaign to regain control of the state. In September 2009, 18 new sites were added in the following counties: Loudon, Monroe, Cumberland, Sumner, Montgomery, Dickson, and Claiborne For more information click here
Sweetwater Depot (1:52 minutes away from the cabin)
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This was an important transportation center during the war thanks to the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad that ran through town beginning in 1852. Military control over the railroad seesawed from one side to the other during September 1863 as armies maneuvered for control of Knoxville and Chattanooga. Confederate Gen. James Longstreet used the town and the railroad as a staging area for his campaign against Knoxville.
This was an important transportation center during the war thanks to the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad that ran through town beginning in 1852. Military control over the railroad seesawed from one side to the other during September 1863 as armies maneuvered for control of Knoxville and Chattanooga. Confederate Gen. James Longstreet used the town and the railroad as a staging area for his campaign against Knoxville.
The Great Craighead Cave (1:46 minutes from the cabin)
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Trails sign 140 Lost Sea Road, Sweetwater TN 37874
This cave was rich in saltpeter (niter), which was a key ingredient of gunpowder. This was a much-needed commodity during the war. The approach of Federal troops caused the works to be shut down in the fall of 1863.
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This town was divided in its loyalties, as were many others in the area. Madisonville was occupied by both sides during the war and citizens turned out in support of one side or the other each time. Union troops destroyed the courthouse and damaged the jail in 1864. A monument to troops serving on both sides was erected in the courthouse square following the war.
Coker Creek "Caught In The Middle"
Trails sign
12197 New Highway 68, Tellico Plains, TN 37385
In the Tennessee and North Carolina mountains] the warfare between scattering bodies of irregular troops is conducted on both sides without any regard whatever to the rules of civilized war or the dictates of humanity. The murder of prisoners and non-combatants in cold blood has … become quite common [as well as] almost every other horror incident to brutal and unrestrained soldiery.” — N.C. Gov. Zebulon B. Vance
History of the Dahlonega Gold Rush
(1:19 minutes from cabin)Click here for directions
Gold was first discovered in the Dahlonega area in 1828, twenty years before the Gold Rush to California. When it was discovered it was completely by accident – when a deer hunter, Benjamin Parks, tripped over a rock 2 ½ miles south of what is now Dahlonega. He got to looking at it and it was full of gold. Within one year’s time some 15,000 miners heard about that and rushed to find some gold for themselves. At that time there was so much gold in and around Dahlonega that it laid on top of the ground, washing off the mountainsides for centuries.
The first miners were the lucky ones, being able to pick the gold up by hand. But pretty soon all the easy gold was gone so the miners went to the streams and rivers in search of more easy gold. But all they had at the time was the gold pan. At first the gold pan worked pretty good, but after awhile it became nearly impossible to make any money with it. The gold pan then became a way of testing first to see what was there.To make any money at it a sluice box was developed to go through more material in less time. Sometimes rockers were built onto the bottom making it a rocker box but basically the same principal – let gravity do the work. A sluice box was nothing more than a long trough with a riffle system down the middle, similar to a ladder laid down. As the material washed down the middle the heavier gold and black sand (iron oxide) would settle to the bottom forming a concentrate while the lighter material washed out the lower end. The concentrate would then be panned for the gold.
185 Consolidated Gold Mine Road, Dahlonega, GA 30533- Call us at 706-864-8473
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