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Chieftains Museum / Major Ridge Home

Rome, GA

The preserved home of Cherokee leader Major Ridge interprets Cherokee political history, plantation life, enslaved labor and the events surrounding removal. Ridge signed the disputed Treaty of New Echota and was later killed by fellow Cherokees who viewed the treaty as betrayal.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: chieftainsmuseum.org

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