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Tallassee was the southernmost of a string of <a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill Cherokee</a> villages that spanned the lower <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a> in the 1700s. Although it receives scant attention in primary historical accounts, Tallassee is one of the few Overhill towns to appear on every major 18th-century map of the Little Tennessee Valley. </p><p>The Tallassee site is now submerged by Chilhowee Lake, an impoundment of the Little Tennessee River created by the completion of <a href="/wiki/Chilhowee_Dam" title="Chilhowee Dam">Chilhowee Dam</a> in 1957. The shoreline above the site is now home to the Calderwood Hydroelectric Development Area, which was established by the <a href="/wiki/Aluminum_Company_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Aluminum Company of America">Aluminum Company of America</a> in the 1920s as a base for the construction of <a href="/wiki/Cheoah_Dam" title="Cheoah Dam">Cheoah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santeetlah_Dam" title="Santeetlah Dam">Santeetlah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Calderwood_Dam" title="Calderwood Dam">Calderwood</a> dams further up the river.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The modern hamlet of Tallassee— established in the early 1900s— is located 7 miles (11 km) downstream, near Chilhowee Dam. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geographical_setting">Geographical setting</h2></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg/250px-Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg/375px-Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg/500px-Tallassee-site-tn2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2045" data-file-height="1529" /></a><figcaption>Looking west toward the ancient site of Tallassee (under the lake just beyond the treeline)</figcaption></figure> <p>After winding its way through the mountains of Georgia and North Carolina, the Little Tennessee River crosses into Tennessee, where it flows for another 54 miles (87 km) before emptying into the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_River" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee River</a> near <a href="/wiki/Lenoir_City,_Tennessee" title="Lenoir City, Tennessee">Lenoir City</a>. Chilhowee Dam, situated approximately 34 miles (55 km) above the mouth of the river, retains a reservoir that spans the river for 10 miles (16 km), all the way to the base of Calderwood Dam. The Tallassee site was located 41.5 miles (66.8 km) above the river's mouth, at the river's confluence with Tallassee Creek. According to 18th-century records, the village was situated on both banks of the river. Calderwood Dam is located just 2 miles (3.2 km) above the Tallassee site, opposite a U-shaped bend in the river. </p><p>The Tallassee site is surrounded by high mountains on all sides. The <a href="/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains" title="Great Smoky Mountains">Great Smoky Mountains</a> rise to the north and east and the <a href="/wiki/Unicoi_Range" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicoi Range">Unicoi Mountains</a> rise to the south and west. The Little Tennessee provides the immediate boundary between the <a href="/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park" title="Great Smoky Mountains National Park">Great Smoky Mountains National Park</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_National_Forest" title="Cherokee National Forest">Cherokee National Forest</a>. </p><p>The Calderwood Hydroelectric Development Area— located on the shores above the ancient Tallassee site— is accessible just off <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_129" title="U.S. Route 129">U.S. Route 129</a> approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) south of the road's <a href="/wiki/Foothills_Parkway" title="Foothills Parkway">Foothills Parkway</a> junction. The area is open to the public daily from 8 A.M to 3 P.M. Just beyond Calderwood, US-129 enters a dangerous switchback-laden stretch of road known as "The Dragon." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tallassee-timberlake-detail1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Tallassee-timberlake-detail1.jpg/250px-Tallassee-timberlake-detail1.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tallassee-timberlake-detail1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="372" data-file-height="216" /></a><figcaption>Detail of Tallassee from Henry Timberlake's 1765 "Draught of the Cherokee Country"</figcaption></figure> <p>Perhaps due to its remote location amidst high mountains, Tallassee received little attention from explorers, traders, and diplomats throughout the 1700s. The village appears on George Hunter's map of the Cherokee country in 1725 along with <a href="/wiki/Citico_(Tellico_archaeological_site)" class="mw-redirect" title="Citico (Tellico archaeological site)">Citico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tanasi" title="Tanasi">Tanasi</a>. The "head man" of Tallassee was one of several Overhill and Middle town chiefs that met with Colonel George Chicken at the Tanasi townhouse in 1725 to forge an alliance against the <a href="/wiki/Creek_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Creek tribe">Creeks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tallassee again appears on Henry Popple's 1733 "Map of the British Empire in North America" along with Citico and Tanasi. In 1751, South Carolina records list Tallassee as one of seven Overhill towns. The same seven are shown on John Mitchell's 1755 map of North America.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1761-1762, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Timberlake" title="Henry Timberlake">Henry Timberlake</a> visited the Overhill towns as a peace envoy. Timberlake's map shows a townhouse and 22 dwellings (15 on the east bank and 7 on the west bank) at Tallassee. The map also reports 47 warriors residing at Tallassee— the third smallest contingent in the valley (only <a href="/wiki/Mialoquo" class="mw-redirect" title="Mialoquo">Mialoquo</a> and Tanasi had fewer warriors)— and states that Tallassee's "governor" had recently died and had yet to be replaced.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Chickamauga_Wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Chickamauga Wars">Chickamauga Wars</a>, which raged in the late 1770s, 1780s, and early 1790s, saw the destruction of most of the Overhill towns and the valley's subsequent decline. In 1776, <a href="/wiki/William_Christian_(Virginia)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Christian (Virginia)">Colonel William Christian</a> invaded the Overhill country and destroyed a number of villages, but spared Tallassee.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A militia detachment under Major Jonathan Tipton attempted to burn Tallassee in 1780, but abandoned his assault when the river proved impassable.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tallassee was finally burned by <a href="/wiki/John_Sevier" title="John Sevier">John Sevier</a> in 1788, largely in retaliation for the Nine Mile Creek massacre. The village was attacked again in 1795 by Colonel Alexander Kelley, killing 8 villagers.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tallassee was abandoned in 1819 after the Cherokee signed the Treaty of Calhoun, ceding the Little Tennessee Valley to the United States. For most of the 1800s and early 1900s, Tallassee was the site of a <a href="/wiki/Ford_(crossing)" title="Ford (crossing)">river ford</a> connecting the Calloway Turnpike and the Parson's Turnpike.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_modern_hamlet_of_Tallassee">The modern hamlet of Tallassee</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg/250px-Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg/375px-Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg/500px-Tallassee-modern-tn1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1953" data-file-height="1341" /></a><figcaption>Modern Tallassee along US-129</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early 1900s, a railroad station named Tallassee was established approximately 7 miles (11 km) downstream from the ancient village, near the modern Chilhowee Dam. Around 1928, several investors attempted to establish a mountain resort at this station. Cabins were built and purchased, but the project ultimately failed.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A small community remains at the new Tallassee, however, and the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency has established a boat ramp across the street from the old general store. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeological_findings">Archaeological findings</h2></div> <p>When ALCOA announced plans to build Chilhowee Dam in 1955, the Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Archaeological Society (under the guidance of Thomas Lewis and Madeline Kneburg of the University of Tennessee) began conducting salvage excavations at the Chilhowee and Tallassee sites, both of which would be flooded by the reservoir. As surface investigations recovered few artifacts at Chilhowee, however, the focus was shifted to Tallassee.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Materials gathered from the Tallassee excavations revealed sporadic habitation dating to as early as the <a href="/wiki/Woodland_period" title="Woodland period">Woodland period</a> (1000 B.C. - 1000 A.D.) and occurring throughout the <a href="/wiki/Mississippian_culture" title="Mississippian culture">Mississippian period</a> (900-1600 A.D.). A prehistoric substructure mound was also located at the site, on the east bank of the river. Excavators uncovered 145 burials at Tallassee— 27 of which were classified as Cherokee— and 18 refuse pits. Grave goods accompanying the Cherokee burials included glass beads, iron tools, brass implements, copper arrowheads, and a <a href="/wiki/Jew%27s_harp" title="Jew's harp">jew's harp</a>. Excavators also uncovered remnants of a house that had been burned and the foundations of an early 19th-century cabin.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Inez Burns, <i>History of Blount County, Tennessee: From War Trail to Landing Strip, 1795-1955</i> (Nashville: Benson Print Co., 1957), 284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Samuel Cole Williams, <i>Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1540-1800</i> (Johnson City, Tenn.: The Watauga Press, 1928), 102, 114.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mary Rothrock, "Carolina Traders Among the Overhill Cherokees 1690/1760." <i>Tennessee Archaeologist</i> 32, no. 1 (Spring of 1976), 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Henry Timberlake, "Draught of the Cherokee Country," 1765. For Timberlake's full account, see: Henry Timberlake, Samuel Cole Williams (editor), <i>Memoirs, 1756-1765</i> (Marietta, Georgia: Continental Book Company, 1948).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burns, 11-16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vicki Rozema, <i>Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation</i> (Winston-Salem: John F. Blair), 144.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burns, 11-16, 30.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burns, 283-284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burns, 283.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kenneth Cornett, "Excavations at Tallassee (40Bt8): An Historic Cherokee Village Site in East Tennessee." <i>Tennessee Archaeologist</i> 32, no. 1 (Spring of 1976), 11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cornett, 11-16.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <p><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template:Mapit-US-cityscale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template:Mapit-US-cityscale (page does not exist)">Template:Mapit-US-cityscale</a> </p>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tallassee_(Cherokee_town)&oldid=209088467">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tallassee_(Cherokee_town)&oldid=209088467</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Monroe_County,_Tennessee" title="Category:Monroe County, Tennessee">Monroe County, Tennessee</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Blount_County,_Tennessee" title="Category:Blount County, Tennessee">Blount County, Tennessee</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Cherokee_towns" title="Category:Cherokee towns">Cherokee towns</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Archaeological_sites_in_Tennessee" title="Category:Archaeological sites in Tennessee">Archaeological sites in Tennessee</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Communities_of_the_Great_Smoky_Mountains" title="Category:Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains">Communities of the Great Smoky Mountains</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 29 April 2008, at 21:22<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright"><span class="nowraplinks">This version of the page has been <a href="/wiki/Help:Page_history" title="Help:Page history">revised</a>. 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