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An 1822 map of Cherokee lands in Georgia. Cherokee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 26, 1831, covering a vast area northwest of the Chattahoochee River and Chestatee River (except for Carroll County). It was named after the Cherokee people who lived in the area at that time. [4]
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The Trail of Tears march began in Cherokee County approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from where Sixes Mine is located. After the Cherokee Nation was driven off their land, the Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 took place, which granted 40-acre (160,000 m 2 ) plots of land to Georgia residents who were fortunate enough to win the lottery.
December 4, 2009 (Old Canton Rd. and GA 372: Ball Ground: 2: Canton Commercial Historic District: Canton Commercial Historic District: January 12, 1984 (Roughly bounded by Main, Church, Archer, and Marietta Sts.
The Franklin-Creighton Mine was a Georgia Gold Rush gold mine located off what is now Yellow Creek Road in the town of Ball Ground in Cherokee County, Georgia. The mine, located along the Etowah River , was initially known as the Franklin Mine because it was started by a widow, Mrs. Mary G. Franklin, who obtained a 40-acre (160,000 m 2 ) lot in ...
Lake Arrowhead is located approximately two miles (3 km) west of Waleska, in the mountainous, west-northwestern part of Cherokee County, Georgia, United States.Located just east-southeast of Bear Mountain, it is Georgia's second largest man-made, private lake, [1] covering approximately 540 acres (2.2 km 2) and reaching depths of up to 80 feet (24 m).
1915 map of Cherokee County featuring Keithsburg. Keithsburg was established in the mid nineteenth-century along the railroad northeast of Canton. The community was named after the local Keith family and its Keith Plantation, one of the oldest plantations in Cherokee County.
Sixes, home to approximately 14,540, is an unincorporated community in western Cherokee County, Georgia, United States, located about three miles west of Holly Springs and near the eastern shore of current-day Lake Allatoona.