Center of the World-GHM 073-3-Hart Co
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N 34° 19.690 W 082° 58.097
17S E 318922 N 3800297
US 29 2.9 miles southwest of courthouse in Hartwell
Waymark Code: WM7JK9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/01/2009
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This was the Ah-Ye-Li A-Lo-Hee, Center of the World to the Cherokee Indians. To this assembly ground , from which trails radiate in many directions, they came to hold their councils, to dance and worship which were to them related functions, and to barter their hides, furs and blankets for the trade goods of the white men from Augusta and other settlements. At one time there was a move to establish here the Hart County seat. This site was also a noted roost in the days when the now extinct passenger pigeons migrated here in the autumn in such numbers that ´their weight broke the tree limbs.´
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 073-3
Date: 1954
Sponsor: Georgia Historic Commission
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