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Special Feature: Site of the last capital of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia.

NEW ECHOTA MARKER was established in 1930 by an act of Congress which authorized the erection of a monument on the site of New Echota, the last capital of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia. Such a monument was erected by the Federal Government in 1931.

New Echota was the capital of the Cherokees from 1825 to 1830 and revealed during its brief life the relatively high civilization attained by these Indians. There centered the activities of the republican government formally adopted by the Cherokee Council in 1820. There, too, was to be found such evidence of commercial progress as shoe stores, furniture shops, and taverns. In 1828 a school was established, and in the same year a newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix.

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