New Echota was the capital of the Cherokee Nation in the Southeastern United States from 1825 until their forced removal in the late 1830s. New Echota is located in present-day Gordon County, in northwest Georgia, north of Calhoun. It is south of Resaca, next to present day New Town, known to the Cherokee as Ꭴꮝꮤꮎꮅ, Ustanali. The site has been preserved as a state park and a historic site. It was designated in 1973 as a National Historic Landmark District.
The site is at the confluence of the Coosawattee and Conasauga rivers, which join to form the Oostanaula River, a tributary of the Coosa River. Archeological evidence has shown that the site of New Echota had been occupied by ancient indigenous cultures for thousands of years prior to the Cherokee. It was known as Gansagiyi or Gansagi. The Cherokee renamed it New Echota in 1825 after making it the capital, in honor of their former chief town of Chota, based along the lower Little Tennessee River as one of the Overhill towns on the west side of the Appalachian Mountains.
^ abc"National Register of Historical Places – Georgia (GA), Gordon County". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 1970.
^"New Echota". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2008.
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Jackson chose to continue with Indian removal, and negotiated the Treaty of NewEchota, on December 29, 1835, which granted the Cherokee two years to move to...
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to acquire new lands, they were more inclined to accept relocation. On December 29, 1835, the "Ridge Party" signed the Treaty of NewEchota, stipulating...
wars, signer of the Treaty of NewEchota John Ridge, Skatlelohski (1792–1839), son of Major Ridge, statesman, NewEchota Treaty signer Clement V. Rogers...
brother Elias Boudinot were among Cherokee leaders who signed the Treaty of NewEchota in 1835. The majority of the tribe opposed their action. In 1839, the...
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met Sarah Bird Northup, of a New England Yankee family, and they married in 1824. Soon after their return to NewEchota in 1825, Ridge was chosen for...
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as retaliation for having ceded their homeland in the 1835 Treaty of NewEchota. The Boudinot children were orphaned by their father's murder, as their...
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included this area of the state park. That year they signed the Treaty of NewEchota with the United States, which forced the Cherokee to remove into the Ozarks...
was provided for in the Treaty of Hopewell of 1785 and the Treaty of NewEchota of 1835; however, the right was not exercised until 2019. The U.S. House...
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