Chieftains Museum
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Chieftains Museum is a museum in Georgia, at a recorded elevation of 186 m. Bogan Peak stands 505 m to the west, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Ridge Ferry Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway passes 8.0 miles off.
The story
Chieftains Museum, also known as the Major Ridge Home, is a two-story white frame house built around a log house of 1819 in Cherokee country (it is within present-day Rome, Georgia, US). It was the home of the Cherokee leader Major Ridge. He was notable for his role in negotiating and signing the Treaty of New Echota of 1835, which ceded the remainder of Cherokee lands in the Southeast to the United States. He was part of a minority group known as the Treaty Party, who believed that relocation was inevitable and wanted to negotiate the best deal with the United States for their people. The chiefs had agreed they could not go to war against the United States on the removal issue, but most other Cherokee opposed Ridge and the Treaty Party. He and some other members of the Treaty Party were assassinated after most of the tribe was removed to what became the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory, for having ceded the tribe's communal lands, as this was considered a capital crime.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1971.
Wikidata Q5097132, matched on coordinates and name (6 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 186 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 8.0 mi off the Ridge and Valley Scenic Byway
- 24.3 mi off the Lookout Mountain Parkway
- 25.7 mi off the Appalachian Highlands Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Little River Falls Overlook · 27 mi
- Lynn Overlook · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ridge Ferry Park: 0.6 mi
- Eagle Park: 1.0 mi
- Upper Avenue A Historic District: 1.0 mi
- Chase M. Tolbert Park: 1.2 mi
- Lower Avenue A Historic District: 1.2 mi
- Blossom Hill: 0.7 mi
- Jackson Hill: 0.8 mi
- Tower Hill: 1.6 mi
- Old Shorter Hill: 1.8 mi
- Myrtle Hill: 1.8 mi
- Forrest Monument: 1.9 mi
- West Rome High Marker: 3.4 mi
- Old Middle School Arch: 3.5 mi
- Trippeer Arch: 3.6 mi
- The Old Berry Dairy: 6.8 mi
- Martha Berry Museum and Art Gallery: 0.6 mi
- Rome Area History Museum: 1.6 mi
- Adairsville Railroad Muesem: 14.8 mi
- Aragon Historical Society: 17.4 mi
- Cassville Historical Society: 18.2 mi
- Coosa Valley Fair Grounds: 1.8 mi
- Shed covered in license plates: 9.7 mi
- Creekside Farms: 16.3 mi
- Hightower Falls Event Venue: 23.6 mi
- New Echota State Historic Site: 23.6 mi
- Keown Falls South 25: 23.5 mi
- Keown Falls North 35: 23.6 mi
- Hightower Falls: 23.7 mi
- Porter Garden: 1.9 mi
- Rockery: 2.0 mi
- Livingston: 11.1 mi
- Everett Springs: 15.4 mi
- Rest Area #34 (I-75 North / MP 308.0): 17.1 mi
- Rest Area #35: 23.6 mi
- John's Mountain WMA: 18.9 mi
- Otting Tract Wilderness Management Area: 24.8 mi
- Blacks Bluff: 4.7 mi
- Cave Spring: 15.2 mi
- Little Sister of Liberty: 17.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.4 miles of Chieftains Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogan Peak | W 269° | 505 m | 18.8 mi |
| Shorty Mountain | SW 218° | 484 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mill Mountain | NNE 14° | 473 m | 19.1 mi |
| High Point | NW 306° | 468 m | 13.2 mi |
| Lavender Mountain | NW 313° | 466 m | 5.9 mi |
| Calbeck Mountain | NNE 16° | 464 m | 15.9 mi |
| Mount Alto | SW 230° | 456 m | 4.8 mi |
| Bogan Mountain | W 275° | 429 m | 16.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:45 | 19:20 | 19:53 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:20 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:29 | 19:06 | 19:39 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:57 | 17:35 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 44 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 50 | 44 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rome, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/367915484
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