Chief Wauhatchie's Home
Posted by: 
ggmorton
N 34° 58.505 W 085° 24.206
16S E 645740 N 3871443
A marker describing an Indian home in Dade county.
Waymark Code: WM25ZF
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/10/2007
Views: 43
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 Captain John Brown, Colonel Gideon Morgan, and Major General Andrew Jackson, fighting the Creeks from January 27 to April 11, 1814. Old records say "Wauhatchie, severely 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.
Type of Marker: Building
Marker #: 041-2
Date: 1955
Sponsor: Not listed
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