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1830s / Native Americans

Chief Collard and the Cherokee

December 13, 2018January 4, 2019

Chief Collard lived peacefully in Cedar Town among white settlers until the Cherokee Indians were rounded up and driven from northwest Georgia in 1838. Later Collard and his […]

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