Again, I got the following information from the Chieftains Trail brochure in Calhoun, Georgia.
The Chief John Ross House is a memorial to John Ross, greatest chief's of the Cherokee Nation. The house was built in 1979 by John McDonald, maternal grandfather of John Ross. It is a two-story log house, with plank flooring and rock chimneys, assembled with wooded pegs. It was buil beside the fresh waters of Poplar Springs on the old Indian trading path to Augusta.
The House is located off U.S. 27 on Lake Avenue in Rossville, Georgia, the town named for John Ross. Open 1 p.m.-5 p.m. (except Wednesday). June 1st-September, or by appointment. Gardnes open year round. Admission is free. Phone (706)375-7702.
The below information I got from a brochure from the Chattanooga Area Convention & Visitors Bureau from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Chattanooga means, "Rock coming to a point", which describes Lookout Mountain.
Ross's Landing, founded by John Ross on the south bank of the Tennessee River, was the first settlement in Chattanooga, and served as a center of trade for both Cherokee and white settlers. Surrounding the Tennessee Aquarium, it is now called Ross's Landind Park and Plaza.
John Ross was one-eighth Cherokee and was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation during thier expatriation. To prevent the removal of the Cherokees, John Ross traveled to Washington in an attempt ro convince the U.S. government not to remove the Cherokee Nation fromt its native soil. When removal became inevitable, two internment camps were built in this area, and the first party of Cherokees left voluntarily in 1837. Numerous Cherokees left their Tennessee homeland from these settlements.
Today, an intergral part of the landscape and design of Ross's Landing Park & Plaza is an historic timeline which commemorates that era during the early-1800s when the Cherokee Nation flourished in the Southeast.
Don't miss the references to our Native American heritage alongside the exterior walls of the Tennessee Aquarium. There is also a monument and historic sign honoring the Cherokee Nation, near where the Southern Belle Riverboat is docked.
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