Chota and Tanasi Cherokee Village Sites

Chota and Tanasi Cherokee Village Sites - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Chota (also spelled Chote, Echota, Itsati, and other similar variations) is a historic Overhill Cherokee town site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Developing after nearby Tanasi, Chota () was the most important of the Overhill towns from the late 1740s until 1788. It replaced Tanasi as the de facto capital, or 'mother town' of the Cherokee people. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
date from: 1600

Source: en.wikipedia.org