Athens Post Newspaper Articles

Copies available

www.rootsweb.com/~tnmonroe

The American State Papers Public Lands Index 

1 - 8

The American State Papers which pertain to the Cherokee.

Volume One "Indian Affairs" selected documents

Births and deaths 1882 on

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

Bradley Co Landmarks by Roy G Lillard

Index to Births and deaths

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

The Sudie Clemmer Collection  NEW

Churches - a list of  churches in existence in 1883

http://www.us-census.org

Census records housed at U.S. Genealogy Web

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

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

Confederate Pension Applications

Churches - A listing of all mentioned in Polk Heritage Book

Cumberland Shed School Picture of 1902 in Polk County

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

Communities -

Some had post offices, some didn't.

Cherokee Research:

General Wool and info about the Cherokee Removal

Cherokee Research:

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

Some Polk Co Cemetery Records from Connie Baumann 

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

A Register of Persons Baptized by the Rev. Evan Jones in the Cherokee Nation on the 22^nd day of April, 1805

NEW!!

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

Cherokee Trail of Tears Map

Cherokee Research:

Native American Traders from "Tennessee Old and New"

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

 Cherokee Research  Publications

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

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

Cherokee Research:

Daugherty, Cornelius

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

Cherokee Research:

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.

Cherokee Research:

Jack Hildabrand Testimony taken by JD Clemmer

Polk Co Death Records 1849-1860 from Connie Baumann

Cherokee Research:

Daugherty, Cornelius

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

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.

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

Inns of East Tennessee

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

Journal of Cherokee Studies: an Index to available copies

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

NEW!!!

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

Tennessee Timeline

TN Surveyors District Maps

1890 Polk Co Veteran's and widows Census

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