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Athens Post Newspaper Articles

Copies available

www.rootsweb.com/~tnmonroe

The American State Papers Public Lands Index 

1 - 8

NEW!

The American State Papers which pertain to the Cherokee.

Volume One "Indian Affairs" selected documents

 

     

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NEW!!
Births and deaths 1882 on

Benton Banking Company Picture and info, Polk Co., TN

 

Bradley Co Landmarks by Roy G Lillard

 

NEW!!
Index to Births and deaths

Scanned pages of the JOHN BIGHAM Family Bible contributed by Ron Raburn

 

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Columbus - Polk's First town - A brief historical article

 

Cherokee Trail of Tears Map

 

Cherokee Research  Publications

 

Cumberland Shed School Picture of 1902 in Polk County

 

Cherokee Indian Inhabitants - by Roy G. Lillard Polk County Historian

Clemmer, Jacob D.
(Clemmers of Polk, McMinn & Monroe Co.)
A brief biography

General Wool and info about the Cherokee Removal

A map of the path taken by the Grant Expedition against the Cherokee in 1761.

http://www.us-census.org

Census records housed at U.S. Genealogy Web

Churches - A listing of all mentioned in Polk Heritage Book      NEW!

 

Churches - a list of  churches in existence in 1883

 

Communities - Some had post offices, some didn't.

Confederate Pension Applications

 

Native American Traders from "Tennessee Old and New"

 

Biographies of people associated with the Cherokees...be sure to take a look, you may be surprised at the information in these.

Some Polk Co Cemetery Records from Connie Baumann

A listing of Cherokee people remaining in the east on August 28, 1838-after the Removal

 

The Calhoun Ledger of 1822-1830  A list of 170+ names of the Calhoun, McMinn, County, Tennessee region.

The Cherokee Village of Tomotley... A Historical Timeline 1700's

 

The Cherokee man known as Sequoyah:  A biography given by Major George Lowery, 1835

 

Cherokee Nation East Maps of 1810-1838, District Boundaries, Ferries and Industries, Stores, Missions and Schools

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Polk Co Death Records 1849-1860 from Connie Baumann

Daugherty, Cornelius

A letter to Captain Paul Demere at Fort Loudon written in 1757

Dragging Canoe's Biography by E. Raymond Evans...borrowed from the Journal of Cherokee Studies

This is no longer in print.

     

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Some ancestral history of the Gaston family of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  William B Gaston and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick..relatives of the Gaston's of Polk County.

 
     

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In 1838 Peter and James V. Hildebrand left the Polk region on the Trail of Tears going to Oklahoma.  This is a list of people in this Detachment.

NEW

Hildabrand, Jack:  A photo and brief article

 

Jack Hildabrand Testimony taken by JD Clemmer

 

 

This page is the Lewis Hildebrand & James Brown Detachment which left the Polk area on the Trail of Tears in 1838

 

Polk County High School Students 1913-1928 from Connie Baumann

Jeptha Marian Hawkins and family
from Cager Hawkins Jr and Paula Bicket

 

Newspaper Article

January 16, 1908

"Noted Moonshiner and Outlaw Killed"

Hedden Family

 

 

 

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Inns of East Tennessee

 

 
     

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Journal of Cherokee Studies, Index to all copies available in print  http://www.cherokeemuseum.org/

 

Journal of Cherokee Studies: an Index to available copies

 

     

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Index to King's Mountain Men by K.K . White

 

 
     

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Mortality Schedule

Polk County 1850 & 1860

(for surrounding counties go to

www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2  Records

A 1987 photo of Mrs. Martha McKissack at the age of 104.  She was born in September 1883.

     

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Traders of the Native American tribes of the southeast

Native American Links

 

Early Native American TRADERS Derived from William McDowell's Colonial Records of South Carolina: Documents Relating to Indian Affairs 1750-1754. Contributed by Linda Eaton.

 

Nora Nicholson's Cherokee Guion Miller/Dawes Application and Appeal

(large file)  NEW

 

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The Ocoee's- Parksville Dam projects, four dams, Caney Creek village, the flume line and their history

Old Federal Road Workers Index

 

Old Federal Road --A route through Cherokee Lands--Its history and path.

 

 

Obituaries from

South East Tennessee

 

 

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Early Polk Officials - All court and county officials beginning in 1840 to 1960's.  Please allow time to load

 

Postcards from Southeast TN

Some Post Offices of East Tennessee

 

A listing of a few publications that may help with your Polk County research.

Polk County Post Offices and Postmasters

 

Polk Post Offices

 

Polk's proposed railway from Copperbasin to Cleveland...it never happened.

 

 
     

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A brief biography of Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee syllabury, by Roy Lillard-a 1974 article.

Schools a listing of most Polk Schools

 

Schools -   tidbits of information

New! Stinnett Page from Sudie Clemmer collection

Shelton, Martin, Lawson & Wright complied census information for these families of the southeast Tennessee region

NEW!!!

 

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East Tennessee county links for Tennessee Genealogy Web, American Local History Network & American History and Genealogy Project

Tennessee Timeline

 

TN Surveyors District Maps

 

     

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1890 Polk Co Veteran's and widows Census

 
     

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Ward, Nancy, Cherokee Beloved Woman...a 1975 article--Ranked among the ten greatest Tennesseans

 

 
     

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