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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1790/00/00 Daniel Tanelli Ross Home Daniel and Molly Ross move from Turkey Town, near Gadsden, to Will's Town, now Fort Payne, with infant son, John Ross, and build two-story log cabin they built fronted the Great War and Trading Path which traversed Alabama from north to south.
1795/00/00 Chief John Ross Home The Ross make their home near Will's Town.
1834/00/00 Andrew Ross, son of Daniel and Molly Ross, makes his home at the greatly expanded Cherokee Plantation.
1838/00/00 Andrew Ross, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Cherokee Nation and the brother of Chief John Ross, being 18 Cherokee, is required to make a valuation of all his property before he is evicted from the house during the removal of the Cherokee Nation. Trail of Tears
1845/00/00 William W and Letitia McFarlane are granted Cherokee Plantation by President James K Polk under land Patent No 6292.
1890/00/00 Major C O Godfrey, future mayor of Fort Payne, buys the Haralson place and later deeds it to his daughter-in-law. H R Godfrey, C O Godfrey's son, and his wife will pipe water to the house from a spring on Lookout Mountain.
1914/05/08 Charles Gideon Kershaw Home T E Steele sells Cherokee Plantation to Charles Gideon Kershaw. The Kershaws will use Cherokee as a summer home until 1936 when it became their permanent residence until the death of C G Kershaw in 1946.
1931/00/00 Charles Gideon Kershaw Home C G Kershaw begins leveling the floors, adding foundation supports, a bay window in the dining room, French doors in the living room opening onto a formal garden, a bathroom upstairs, a powder room, and new servants' quarters and garage.
1969/00/00 Pierre Noel sells Cherokee to Royce Kershaw, son of C G Kershaw. The Royce Kershaws will remodel the house and property but made no structural changes.

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Particulars for Cherokee Plantation:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Cultural Affiliation Cherokee
Area of Significance Engineering
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 29th November 1984

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Cherokee Plantation
Registry Address: 100 Cherokee Dr. N. E.
Registry Number: 84000384
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architectural Style: Greek revival
Area in Acres: 16
Contributing Buildings: 1
Non-Contributing Buildings: 1
Non-Contributing Structures: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Engineering, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1800-1824, 1825-1849, 1750-1799, 1925-1949
Significant Year: c 1820, c 1914, c 1931
Associated People: Kershaw,Charles Gideon
Historic Function: Domestic, Agriculture, subsistence
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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