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CHEROKEE COUNTY


County History: Formed in 1839 and named in honor of the local Native American tribe.

Population:
(U.S. Census)
1900 11,860
1920 15,242
1940 18,813
1960 16,335
1980 18,933
2000 24,298

Description:

 

 

Bibliography:

Williams, Michael Ann.
        Marble & log : the history & architecture of Cherokee County,         North Carolina / essay, inventory, and photography by Michael Ann Williams ; edited by Carl Dockery ; designed and produced by Alice Davis White. Murphy, N.C. (205 Peachtree St., Murphy 28906) : Cherokee County  Historical Museum Council, Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1984.

Setzler, Frank M (Frank Maryl), 1902-1975.
        Peachtree mound and village site, Cherokee county, North Carolina, by Frank M. Setzler and Jesse D. Jennings. With appendix, Skeletal remains from the Peachtree site, North Carolina, by T. D. Stewart. Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1941.

The Heritage of Cherokee County, North Carolina / edited by Alice   D. White ; Nell A. White, associate editor.  Winston-Salem, N.C. : Cherokee County Historical Museum in  cooperation with the History Division of Hunter Pub. Co. ; Murphy, N.C. : Orders to Cherokee County Historical Museum, c1987-1990.

 Browder, Nathaniel C., 1904-
        The Cherokee Indians and those who came after : notes for a history of Cherokee County, North Carolina, 1835-1860 (draft copy) / Nathaniel C. Browder.
Hayesville, N.C. : Browder, 1973.

Carpenter, Robert H.
        Listing of concentrations of variables of stream sediment, stream water, and groundwater for the Cleveland and Dalton 30 x 60- minute quadrangles-NURE database [microform] / by Robert H. Carpenter and Jeffrey C. Reid. [Raleigh, N.C.] : N.C. Geological Survey, [1993]

North Carolina community profile : Cherokee, Swain County              [microform.] [Raleigh, N.C. : N.C. Dept. of Commerce, Economic Development  Office], 1988-

Bleeker, Sonia.
        The Cherokee; Indians of the mountains. Illustrated by Althea Karr. New York, Morrow, 1952.

Parker, Thomas Valentine, 1878-
        The Cherokee Indians, with special reference to their relations with the United States Government.
  New York, Grafton Press [1907]

The Cherokee perspective : written by eastern Cherokees / edited  by Laurence French and Jim Hornbuckle.  Boone, N.C. : Appalachian Consortium Press, c1981.

Fitzgerald, Mary Newman.
        The Cherokees, 1540-1937. [Knoxville, Tenn., C.F. Coleman Co., c1927, i.e., 1937]

Gulick, John, 1924-
        Cherokees at the crossroads. With an epilogue by Sharlotte Neely Williams. Chapel Hill, Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina, 1973.

Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910.
        The Cherokees in pre-Columbian times.
New York : AMS Press, [1980]

O'Donnell, James H., 1937-
        The Cherokees of North Carolina in the American Revolution / by  James H. O'Donnell III.  [Raleigh] : North Carolina State University Graphics, c1976.

Gilbert, William Harlen, 1904-
       The eastern Cherokees / by William Harlen Gilbert, Jr.
     New York : AMS Press, 1978.

Dykeman, Wilma.
        Highland homeland : the people of the Great Smokies / by Wilma Dykeman and Jim Stokely. Washington : Division of Publications, National Park Service, Dept. of the Interior, 1978.

 United States. Dept. of the Interior.
       Indians of North Carolina. Letter from the secretary of the interior, transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of June 30, 1914, a report on the condition and tribal rights of the Indians of Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina

     Washington [Govt. print. off.] 1915.

 Keel, Bennie C., 1934-
        Cherokee archaeology : a study of the Appalachian summit / by  Bennie C. Keel.  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1976.

 Dickens, Roy S., 1938-
        Cherokee prehistory : the Pisgah phase in the Appalachian Summit Region / by Roy S. Dickens, Jr.
Knoxville : University of Tennessee

 Fogelson, Raymond D.
        The Cherokees, a critical bibliography / Raymond D. Fogelson.
     Bloomington : Published for the Newberry Library [by] Indiana
University Press, c1978.

Godbold, E. Stanly
        Confederate colonel and Cherokee chief : the life of William Holland Thomas / E. Stanly Godbold, Jr. and Mattie U. Russell.
     Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1990.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary.
        Jurisdiction of United States courts to hear and decide certain claims of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma : report (to accompany H.R. 4209, which ... was referred jointly to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office)
     [Washington, D.C.? : U.S. G.P.O., 1992-

Sondley, Forster Alexander, 1857-1931.
        The Indian's curse; a legend of the Cherokees,
     [Asheville? N. C., n.d.]

At home in the Smokies : a history handbook for Great Smoky                Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee / produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service.
     Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1984.

Finger, John R., 1939-
        The Eastern Band of Cherokees, 1819-1900  Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1984.

Schwarze, Edmund, 1866-
        History of the Moravian missions among southern Indian tribes ofthe United States. Bethlehem, Pa., Times Publishing Co., 1923.

Cherokee removal : before and after / edited by William L. Anderson. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1991.

Chiltoskey, Mary Ulmer.
        Cherokee words with pictures. Asheville, N.C., Stephens Press [c1972]

The geologic story of the Ocoee River : see the river-- see the rapids--  see the rocks! / U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service ; Tennessee Valley Authority. [Denver, CO] : The Survey, [1996]