Site of Carmel (Taloney) Mission Station-GHM 112-5 - Georgia Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Just west of here in 1819 the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions established a mission station to the
Cherokee Indians. Moody Hall and Henry Parker were the first missionaries sent to Carmel (originally known as Taloney).
March 12, 1831. Rev. Isaac Proctor, then residing here, was
arrested by the Georgia Guard for not complying with the new
state law requiring all white men residing on Cherokee land now claimed by Georgia, to apply for licenses to remain and take
an oath of allegiance to the State. Many of the missionaries
abstained, feeling that Georgia had no power to enforce her laws
over land rightfully belonging to the Cherokees. Rev. Daniel S. Butrick, also a missionary at Carmel, away at the time, escaped arrest. Rev. Proctor and the other missionaries which were
arrested were released very shortly on grounds that they were
agents of the U.S. Government in the educating of the Cherokees.
Soon afterwards the issue again became critical and, rather than
take the oath of allegiance, Butrick and Proctor left Georgia.
Rev. Proctor remained in that portion of the Cherokee Nation
now Tennessee and started a new mission. Carmel continued in existence until 1839.

Type of Marker: Highway Marker #: 112-5 Date: 1962 Sponsor: Not listed

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