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The Cherokee leader Major Ridge and his family lived in this house, near present-day Rome, in the early 1800s. The house was part of Ridge's 280-acre plantation. Today, the historic site is a museum.

Courtesy of Alice Taylor-Colbert, Shorter University. Reprinted by permission of Chieftains Museum

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