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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27,1W1
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Letters from students
This past week has been Red
Ribbon Week, celebrated in
schools nationwide with the
purpose of emphasizing the
harmful effects of drug abuse
which includes alcohol and
tobacco.
The lower grades have been
receiving special emphasis as
teachers work to help the chil
dren know the importance of
saying no to drugs.
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Mike Kenn, offensive tackle for the
Atlanta Falcons speaks to a gather
ing at a recent meeting at South For
syth Middle School.
Kenn speaks
against drugs
Tuesday, Oct. 22, South Forsyth
Middle School held its monthly Par
ent/Teacher/Student Association
meeting, scheduled to coincide with
Red Ribbon Week.
The week which ended Friday at
school was full of activities to make
students aware of the risks of drugs
and to make Forsyth County drug
free.
In keeping with the education
theme on drug abuse, special guest
speaker was Mike Kenn of the Atlanta
Falcons. He spoke to the gathering of
parents, teachers and students about
the importance of saying no to drugs.
He urged parents to keep the lines
of communication open with their
children. He cautioned students to be
aware that there would be groups
pressuring them to experiment and
that it is important to be able to have a
response whether it be through the
use of role models or by recognizing
that it is “uncool” to be a part of that
group.
The talk was informative to every
one who heard it and it tied in well
with the drug awareness happenings
at South Forsyth Middle School
throughout the week. A business
meeting preceeded Kenn’s address.
Attending the meeting with him was
his wife. -v
Shown here are a few of the
letters which were submitted
by Marsha Gravitt from her
third grade students at Sawnee
Elementary School and some of
those submitted by Dottie Cul
ver who is second grade teach
er at Coal Mountain Elemen
tary School. The letters have
not been corrected but retain
the innocence of the children
making a plea.
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INDlANcon.inued from Page 1A
over the world. His project started as
a hobby long ago when he found an
artifact while working as a bricklayer
at Sawnee Elementary.
Gazaway said that many different
Indian tribes once occupied the For
syth County area, leaving behind an
area rich in culture.
About 50 miles north of where base
ball fans have been filling the stadium
to cheer Atlanta’s champion team, a
nation was long ago established.
It was formed by the Cherokee Indi
an tribe, after they fought the Creek
Indians at the Chattahoochee River
for territorial lines at the Battle of
Taliwa in 1755.
Today the land that once formed
the Cherokee Nation is divided into
several counties, including Lumpkin,
Union, Cobb, Cherokee, Gilmer, Mur
ray, Bartow and Floyd. Old Cherokee
County and the Cherokee Nation re
mains as only a memory.
According to a book written by his
torian Garland C. Bagley, the Chero
kees were “perhaps the most civi
lized, and intelligent race of Indians
in the whole U.S.A and had many fine
characteristics.”
About 1803, the Federal govern
ment began to negotiate with the
Cherokees to build a road through the
Cherokee Nation. The road was to en
ter what is now eastern Forsyth Coun
ty west of Flowery Branch and pro
vide access to the several toll ferries
which operated across the Chattahoo
chee from Hall and Gwinnett coun
ties. Roads like these made Forsyth
County a major gateway to the Chero
kee Nation on its eastern boundary.
Around 1828 gold filled the streams
of Forsyth County, the Dahlonega
area and the minds of Georgians.
However, an orderly society was pri
ority for the Cherokees.
Forsyth’s territory was first identi
fied within the Hickory Log District of
the Cherokee Nation in 1820. It
formed a three-tiered government,
similar to the one U.S. citizens abide
by today.
But profits from gold became para
mount in the mind of many Georgians.
The state eventually agreed to relin
quish its claim on all the land west of
what is now the Georgia-Alabama
state line to the Mississippi River,
provided that the U.S. Government
would extinguish the rights of the
Cherokee Indians to their lands and
remove them from the state’s
boundaries.
In 1830, companies of the U.S. In
fantry were sent to Georgia’s Chero
kee frontier by the Secretary of War.
This movement represented the first
occupation of the Cherokee country
by Federal troops following the dis
covery of gold.
A deadline for Cherokee removal
was then set for May 1838.
Forsyth County was surveyed in
1832, the same year it was named for
John Forsyth, the one-time governor
of Georgia and Secretary of State in
the Jackson and Van Buren cabinets.
In 1834, Cumming became the official
county seat
Some of the principal streams in •
the county at the time of the surveys
were named for Native Americans, in
cluding Sittingdown Creek and
Young Deer’s Creek.
The county was eventually divided
into 40 one-acre lots by the state to be
drawn by white men in a lottery. The
land lots were then awarded as gold
prizes.
In 1835 a Cherokee Indian census
was taken. The numbers showed that
162 full and mixed-blood Indians
from 31 families lived in the county.
The others had by now moved west or
emigrated to Oklahoma or Arkansas.
The government next stepped in to
conduct property and improvement
evaluations on the area’s land in 1836.
Indians were paid small amounts for
their valuables and headed west Few
others remained behind.
This same year, the first law regard
ing the removal of the Cherokee Indi
ans passed. Migration to the west,
known as the Trail of Tears began in
Nov. 1838.
Appropriate for the Halloween sea
son, myths still circulate in the area
about the late Chief Sawnee.
According to Forsyth County Histo
rian Don Shadbum, Sawnee immi
grated to the west after being paid by
the Cherokees.
But Gazaway believes differently,
claiming there is truth to the rumor
that he is buried in Sawnee Mountain.
“He’s buried in the cave,” Gazaway
said. “He and his wife both are.”
Gazaway claims he has been to the
site of the cave, but will not reveal its
location. He only stated that “the sun
rises on it in the morning and sets on it
in the evening.”
Perhaps Forsyth County tomahawk
choppers can now cheer on the
Braves with a little more knowledge
about the nation which inhabited the
land they live on before baseball was
even an organized sport.
The
Winston
Simulator
Will be
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