Council House
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward, August 2, 1830
Copy of letter from Secretary of War J. H. Eaton to Colonel Ward transmitting a copy of his July 29th letter to Colonel Montgomery, Cherokee Agent, setting forth the President's views on Indian removal. Five folded sheets of paper with handwritten text in ink on 19 pages. Folder 40
Inscription(s)
Inscribed in ink on recto, "Copy"
Creek Council House, Okmulgee, 1850 - 1900
Folder 15
Inscription(s)
Inscribed, "Creek Council House, Okmulgee" on verso
Dimensions of National Council House by William Thornton, January 12, 1838
Dimensions of National Council House by William Thornton, Clerk of National Council. (OS). One sheet of paper with handwritten text in ink on recto and verso. Folder 284
Hand-drawn map of New Echota, Georgia, mid-19th century - mid-20th century
Hand-drawn map of New Echota, Georgia, noting a Federal monument, council house, tribal cemetary, and Elias Boudinot's house where the Cherokee Phoenix was printed. Folder 71, larger version in Map 455
Photograph of a painting of the Choctaw Council House in Tuskahoma, 1863
Folder 3
Seminole council house and Governor's residence, near Wewoka, 1850 - 1900
Black and white photograph of the Seminole council house near Wewoka. A man, woman, and child are seated on the building's porch. Folder 4
The Removal of the Cherokee, circa 1927
Typescript of an essay titled "The Removal of the Cherokee" by John Madden. Describes how the comissioner J.F. Schermerhorn arranged the Treaty of 1835 in absence of Cherokee officers. By this treaty, the Cherokee Nation ceded to the U.S. all territory east of the Mississippi River. Includes history of the removal from June 1838 to March 1839. Folder 65