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Named from a Cherokee word for the beaver dams along its creek, this fertile valley was the heart of the Cherokee Nation, home to prosperous Native farmers and the Adair family of Scots-Cherokee settlers for whom nearby Adairsville was named.
Oothcaloga Valley is a historical marker in Adairsville, Gordon County, erected in 1997. It is one of 65 historical markers documented in Gordon County, among 104 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.4169, -84.9358 near Adairsville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Adairsville (battlefield), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Site of the Robert C. Saxon House, Cherokee Nation, and Oothcaloga Mission.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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