Massacre at Ywahoo Falls information

The Massacre at Ywahoo Falls (or the Great Cherokee Children Massacre) is alleged to have occurred on August 10, 1810, at Yahoo Falls, now within the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeast Kentucky. A number of Cherokee women and children were purportedly massacred by European Americans. No documentary or other evidence supports this account.

"The Great Cherokee Children Massacre at Ywahoo Falls" is written about in an unpublished manuscript completed in the 1990s by Dan Troxell.^[1] Hiking the Big South Fork (1999) notes the purported event, citing Troxell as its source.^[2]

^ Dan Troxell. "The Great Cherokee Children Massacre at Ywahoo Falls". Manuscript. Available at Research Department, Kentucky Historical Society. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
^ Deaver, Brenda G.; Duncan, Howard R.; Smith, Jo Anna (1999), Hiking the Big South Fork (3 ed.), University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 1-57233-031-7

[troxell-1] Dan Troxell. "The Great Cherokee Children Massacre at Ywahoo Falls". Manuscript. Available at Research Department, Kentucky Historical Society. Retrieved 2008-08-15.

[2] Deaver, Brenda G.; Duncan, Howard R.; Smith, Jo Anna (1999), Hiking the Big South Fork (3 ed.), University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 1-57233-031-7