Ross's Landing
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Ross's Landing | |
Location | Riverfront Pkwy. west of Market St., Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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Coordinates | 35°3′23″N 85°18′32″W / 35.05639°N 85.30889°W |
Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 74001914[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 27, 1974 |
Ross's Landing in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the last site of the Cherokee's 61-year occupation of Chattanooga and is considered to be the embarkation point of the Cherokee removal on the Trail of Tears. Ross's Landing Riverfront Park memorializes the location, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
History
The landing was named for
In 1826 Ross sold his land to a Methodist minister, Nicholas Dalton Scales, in order to move to Georgia to be closer to the political center of the Cherokee Nation.[2][3]
When the United States government took over the
The name Ross's Landing was changed to Chattanooga by American settlers who took over the land after the Removal.[4]
Current landmark
Ross's Landing is memorialized at Ross's Landing Riverfront Park on the banks of the Tennessee River where the city of Chattanooga was established. That site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]
In the spring of 2005, a $61 million project to improve the Tennessee public parks was started, which included the redevelopment of Ross's Landing Park.[5] A pedestrian path connects Ross's Landing Riverfront Park to the Tennessee Aquarium. A wall along the walkway contains an art installation that symbolizes the path that Cherokee followed on their forced relocation to Oklahoma. Created by Gadugi, a group of five Cherokee artists from Oklahoma, the installation features seven large carved and glazed clay medallions set into the walkway wall. The medallions represent different aspects of Cherokee history, religious beliefs, and struggles with white settlers.[5]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Note: Soon after, Scales gave this land to Colonel James White to secure a debt he owed him.
- ^ Council, R Bruce (1989). Ross's Landing at Chattanooga: A Cultural History of the Chattanooga Waterfront. Jeffrey L. Brown Institute of Archaeology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. p. 7.
- ISBN 9780932807915.
- ^ a b "Ross's Landing". City Parks Alliance. Retrieved January 26, 2014.