New Echota Monument

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Located at Bonner's Spring near the former Cherokee Nation capital of New Echota, this monument was erected by the U.S. government in 1931. The site is northeast of Calhoun.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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New Echota Monument

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