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Description: Detail of Henry Timberlake's 1765 "Draught of the Cherokee Country," showing the location and layout of the Cherokee town of Chota. The Chota site is now submerged under Tellico Lake in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The "Virginia Fort," built in 1756 but never garrisoned, is at the lower left. Tanasi ("Tennessee") is at the lower right, separated by the stream.
Title: Chota-timberlake-detail1
Credit: Henry Timberlake, Memoirs (1765)
Author: Henry Timberlake
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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