National Geographic Creativeのインスタグラム(natgeointhefield) - 10月9日 02時30分

Photos by @sarah_stacke / Chota is a special place. The light, the land, the stillness, the history. Though the landscape has changed over hundreds of years, the mountain horizon and soft sun on a cloudy day persevere.

The town of Chota was an Overhill Cherokee capital in the 1700s. Destroyed in 1780 by American forces during the Revolutionary War, it was rebuilt but never recovered. By 1813, an elderly Cherokee couple were the only people living at Chota. In 1979, the site was flooded by the creation of Tellico Lake, but Chota was raised above lake level. Archaeologists unearthed the foundation for the Council house, now marked with a monument situated directly above its former location. The remains of 91 Cherokee people were also unearthed, including Oconostota, a well-known Cherokee warrior. Oconostota was reinterred at Chota and the others were reinterred a few miles away at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, Tennessee.

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