Chattooga Quarterly
Summer, 2004
Discovering Native Culture
Director's Page
Measuring the success of a non profit organization can be done in different ways: acres of critical habitat saved, funding, media coverage, etc. My measuring stick is community involvement. The Chattooga Conservancy is a grassroots conservation organization that depends on participation. One way to measure success is to simply count how many volunteers show up when we call for help. We find an amazing record of community involvement as we look back on our activities since the Conservancy was founded in 1991. Read more.
Rare Chattooga Canoe Recovered
Peter Peteet is a soft spoken, thoughtful man with a keen eye for detail. It was his curious eye that first spotted the unusually fine lines of a piece of old wood sticking up out of the sand near the left bank of the Chattooga River about a mile below Earls Ford. That same object had been passed over by the eyes of thousands of recreational paddlers, river guides, and fishermen before Peter waded across the river that dry, hot June day in 2002 to take a closer look that led eventually to the documentation and recovery of one of the most significant cultural artifacts ever found in the Savannah River headwaters. Read more.
Native Americans in the Watershed
Discovery of the approximately 250 year old canoe in the Chattooga River prompted many lively discussions about its possible history. Who made it? How was it used? Which leads to further questions; who lived along the banks of the Chattooga River? And when? A lot has been learned in the past several decades about man’s history in North America and in the southeastern United States. Read more.
Bob Benge: Chickamauga Warrior
In 1775 the Cherokee Indians had been making treaties with the United States for 55 years. They had already signed away a significant portion of their land when a white man by the name of Richard Henderson convinced Cherokee leaders to sell 20 million acres spanning part of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. It turned out to be the largest private real estate deal in the history of the United States. The selling price was 2000 pounds of sterling and 6 wagonloads of trade goods, about a quarter cent per acre.
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- OVER 100,000 BEETLES RELEASED: BATTLE AGAINST HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID CONTINUES
- STEKOA GREENWAY INITIATIVE
- PERMANENT USER FEE BILL IN THE WORKS
- ATV REGULATIONS THREATEN OUR NATIONAL FORESTS