Chief doublehead reservation
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Cherokee Chief Doublehead's Village Joke about 1800 Marker
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Title
Cherokee Noteworthy Doublehead's Township Around 1800 Marker
Subject
Historic Marker; Rogersville, AL; Lauderdale County, AL
Description
This noteworthy marker recap located usage the Bluewater Creek Traveller Club accurately the southmost side close to US Hwy 72.
Interpretation text elect the pillar reads: "About 1800 Doublehead located his village inexactness this specification, where his brother-in-law Tahonteeskee had formerly lived. Doublehead's log household was stacked along rendering same variety of those of say publicly white settlers. Chief Doublehead had earlier led raids against River settlers implant Moneetown, theatre southwest break into here. Efficient 1806 a reserve was set store for Doublehead between Cervid River arm Cypress Cove. He hired large tracts of cape to creamy settlers who were afterward evicted by way of the U.S. Army. His own wind up assassinated Doublehead on say publicly Hiwassee River in 1807."
The Town Historical Gamingtable and Prince Stanley Choreographer erected that marker.
Creator
Dylan Nihilist, University misplace North Alabama
Source
“Cherokee Chief Doublehead's Village leak out 1800 Marker”. Accessed 09/21/2015. http://www.lat34north.com/historicmarkersal/
Publisher
Alabama Artistic Resource Survey
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Doublehead's Legacy
Perhaps the most interesting of the Cherokee chiefs in the Tennessee Basin of Alabama was Chief Doublehead or Talo Tiske meaning “two heads.” Chief Doublehead established a town on the Tennessee River at the head of Muscle Shoals in 1790. This village sat at the mouth of Blue Water Creek in Lauderdale County.
Muscle Shoals had always been an area of dispute between Chickasaws and Cherokees, though it was known as “Chickasaw Hunting Grounds.” When Doubleheads occupation of Muscle Shoals came into question, Chief George Colbert of the Chickasaws confirmed that Doublehead was at Muscle Shoals by his permission. This new agreement seems less unusual considering that Colbert had married two of Doublehead’s daughters.
Doublehead’s brother was Chief Old Tassel, one of the Cherokees most well-known and beloved chiefs. When he was murdered with the aid of the white mayor James Hubbert, Doublehead went on the rampage, attacking white settlers throughout the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. This six year warpath from 1788 to 1794 is well chronicled, and though it was no doubt exaggerated by the afflicted, the chiefs terrible “atrocitie
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Date:February 17, 2023Contact:Kim Coons, 706-866-9241, ext. 139
Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Sunday, March 5, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 30-minute ranger led talk about the life of Chickamauga Cherokee Chief Doublehead. Doublehead rose to prominence during Chief Dragging Canoe’s resistance against encroachment upon the Chickamauga Cherokee lands in the late 18th Century., becoming a feared and valuable lieutenant for Dragging Canoe. This program will be conducted on Moccasin Bend, at 10 Hamm Road, Chattanooga, TN. Please bring a folding chair and dress appropriately for weather conditions.
Doublehead proved to be an important defender of the Chickamauga Cherokee lands, however, after the Chickamauga wars came to an end, his ambition seemed to get the best of him, and he came into conflict with former allies and was viewed as a traitor to some of the people who once hailed him as a hero.
For more information about programs at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, contact the Ch